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Laws, Causality and the Intentional Explanation of Action

Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2010
Whether or not an intentional explanation of action necessarily involves law-like statements is related to another question, namely, is it a causal explanation? The Popper–Hempel Thesis, which answers both questions affirmatively, inevitably faces a dilemma between realistic and universalistic requirements. However, in terms of W.C. Salmon’s concept of
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[Explanation on acupoint intention].

Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion, 2018
The spiritual qi "circulating" "exiting and entering", and "nothing relevant with skin, flesh, tendon and bone" are the clues to understand the original intention of acupoint recorded in Lingshu (Miraculous Pivota). In the paper, regarding the interpretation of these words and phrases in Shuowen Jiezi (Origin of Chinese Characters), in combination with
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Biological Explanation and Intentional Behaviour

1990
Abstract The problem that I want to address in this paper is one that is encountered in many different fields of science. It sometimes appears as an argument between reductionist and non-reductionist modes of explanation. In that form the argument can occur at the boundaries between, for example, chemistry and biology. Claude Bernard,
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Behavior Explanation as Intention Signaling in Human-Robot Teaming

2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018
Facilitating a shared team understanding is an important task in human-robot teaming. In order to achieve efficient collaboration between the human and robot, it requires not only the robot to understand what the human is doing, but also the robot's behavior be understood by (a.k.a. explainable to) the human.
Ze Gong, Yu Zhang 0055
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Intentional explanations and radical theories of education

Studies in Philosophy and Education, 1990
In this paper I argue that Marxist studies of schools have overlooked the power of intentional explanations to explain schooling practices and policies. This oversight is at least in part due to many radical analyses failing to distinguish between explaining the acquisition and persistence of beliefs and determining the social consequences that follow ...
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Functions of Intentional Explanations of Action

2005
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Intentional Explanations

2023
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Patterns of Intention. On the Historical Explanation of Pictures

Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 1987
Martin Kemp, Michael Baxandall
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Functional Explanations and Intentions

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1976
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The Place of the Intentional in the Explanation of Behavior

Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1978
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