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Topics in Cognitive Science, 2019
AbstractPeople often answer why‐questions with what we call experiential explanations: narratives or stories with temporal structure and concrete details. In contrast, on most theories of the epistemic function of explanation, explanations should be abstractive: structured by general relationships and lacking extraneous details.
Sara, Aronowitz, Tania, Lombrozo
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AbstractPeople often answer why‐questions with what we call experiential explanations: narratives or stories with temporal structure and concrete details. In contrast, on most theories of the epistemic function of explanation, explanations should be abstractive: structured by general relationships and lacking extraneous details.
Sara, Aronowitz, Tania, Lombrozo
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Philosophia, 2015
In this paper I present a problem for the conventionalist regarding temporal metrics, and I defend an objectivist position on the ground of its explanatory force. Roughly, the conventionalist has it that there is no fact of the matter with respect to the truth or falsity of judgments of the kind “event e1 lasted as long as event e2”, while the ...
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In this paper I present a problem for the conventionalist regarding temporal metrics, and I defend an objectivist position on the ground of its explanatory force. Roughly, the conventionalist has it that there is no fact of the matter with respect to the truth or falsity of judgments of the kind “event e1 lasted as long as event e2”, while the ...
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Medical Teacher, 1982
In this series we will be printing evaluation instruments, questionnaires, rating scales and similar resource materials useful to teachers, evaluators and planners. You may wish to use or adapt such instruments for your own purposes. The feature in this issue has been prepared by Dr George Brown, B.SC, D.PHIL, Senior Lecturer in University Teaching ...
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In this series we will be printing evaluation instruments, questionnaires, rating scales and similar resource materials useful to teachers, evaluators and planners. You may wish to use or adapt such instruments for your own purposes. The feature in this issue has been prepared by Dr George Brown, B.SC, D.PHIL, Senior Lecturer in University Teaching ...
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Synthese, 1999
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Explanation in Physics: Explanation
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 1990In what sense do the sciences explain? Or do they merely describe what is going on without answering why-questions at all. But cannot description at an appropriate ‘level’ provide all that we can reasonably ask of an explanation? Well, what do we mean by explanation anyway?
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[Explanation] Is Explanation Better
Philosophy of Science, 1997Robert Wilson (1994) maintains that many interesting and fundamental aspects of psychology are non-individualistic because large chunks of psychology depend upon organisms being deeply embedded in some environment. I disagree and present one version of narrow content that allows enough reference to the environment to meet any wide challenge.
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2005
This paper considers VM's largely unrecognised contribution to a debate which spanned philosophy and medicine concerning the demands an adequate explanation must meet in the operation of a craft. VM's special contribution consists in indicating a means to an understanding of a mutual interdependence of theory and practice which acknowledges the ...
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This paper considers VM's largely unrecognised contribution to a debate which spanned philosophy and medicine concerning the demands an adequate explanation must meet in the operation of a craft. VM's special contribution consists in indicating a means to an understanding of a mutual interdependence of theory and practice which acknowledges the ...
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Synthese, 1981
Abstract The question of what role negatively relevant factors should play in explanations that refer to probabilistic causes is addressed. A distinction between contributing and counteracting causes is drawn. Arguments are given that citing the probability value as part of the explanation is unnecessary, that restricting the explanatory
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Abstract The question of what role negatively relevant factors should play in explanations that refer to probabilistic causes is addressed. A distinction between contributing and counteracting causes is drawn. Arguments are given that citing the probability value as part of the explanation is unnecessary, that restricting the explanatory
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Functional explanation and the function of explanation
Cognition, 2006Teleological explanations (TEs) account for the existence or properties of an entity in terms of a function: we have hearts because they pump blood, and telephones for communication. While many teleological explanations seem appropriate, others are clearly not warranted--for example, that rain exists for plants to grow.
Tania, Lombrozo, Susan, Carey
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