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Intentional Explanation and Its Limits

Psychological Inquiry, 1990
second situation, a temporal order is proposed in which activity rise follows anger expression. If these were observed facts, the differential pattern would be impressive support for the levels theory. However, the data analysis provided here does not afford the necessary degree of temporal detail.
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Explanation by Intentional, Functional, and Causal Specification

, 1996
Theo A F Kuipers
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It’s no accident: Our bias for intentional explanations

Cognition, 2008
Three studies tested the idea that our analyses of human behavior are guided by an "intentionality bias," an implicit bias where all actions are judged to be intentional by default. In Study 1 participants read a series of sentences describing actions that can be done either on purpose or by accident (e.g., "He set the house on fire") and had to decide
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Models of intentional explanation

Philosophical Explorations, 2004
The controversy about intentional explanation of action concerns how these explanations work. What kind of model allows us to capture the dependency or relevance relation between the explanans, i.e. the beliefs and desires of the agent, and the explanandum, i.e. the action? In this paper, I argue that the causal mechanical model can do the job.
Robrecht Vanderbeeken
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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 ...
Michael Dale
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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,
Denis Noble
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Intentional Explanation

2009
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Intentional and Mechanistic Explanation

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1980
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Reason Explanation for Encouraging Behaviour Change Intention [PDF]

International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021
The demand for intelligent virtual advisors in our rapidly advancing world is rising and, consequently, the need for understanding the reasoning process to answer why a particular piece of advice is provided to the user is directly increasing. Personalized explanation is regarded as a reliable way to improve the user's understanding and trust in the ...
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