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Designing effective explainable AI: a human-centered evaluation of explanation formats in financial decision-making. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Artif Intell
Maathuis H   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2013
The paper discusses how systems biology is working toward complex accounts that integrate explanation in terms of mechanisms and explanation by mathematical models—which some philosophers have viewed as rival models of explanation.
Ingo Brigandt
exaly   +2 more sources

Functional explanation and the function of explanation

Cognition, 2006
Teleological 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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On computational explanations

Synthese, 2016
Computational explanations focus on information processing required in specific cognitive capacities, such as perception, reasoning or decision-making. These explanations specify the nature of the information processing task, what information needs to be represented, and why it should be operated on in a particular manner. In this article, the focus is
Anna-Mari Rusanen, Otto Lappi
openaire   +1 more source

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