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Scientific Explanation: Putting Communication First

Potochnik, Angela (2016) Scientific Explanation: Putting Communication First. [Preprint]

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Scientific explanations must bear the proper relationship to the world: they must depict what, out in the world, is responsible for the explanandum. But explanations must also bear the proper relationship to their audience: they must be able to create human understanding. With few exceptions, philosophical accounts of explanation either ignore entirely the relationship between explanations and their audience or else demote this consideration to an ancillary role. In contrast, I argue that considering an explanation’s communicative role is crucial to any satisfactory account of explanation.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Potochnik, Angela
Subjects: General Issues > Explanation
General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User: Angela Potochnik
Date Deposited: 12 May 2021 03:06
Last Modified: 12 May 2021 03:06
Item ID: 19008
Journal or Publication Title: Philosophy of Science
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1086/687858
Subjects: General Issues > Explanation
General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date: 2016
Page Range: pp. 721-732
Volume: 83
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19008

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