Subject: Explanation


Number of records: 113.

Batterman, Robert (2009) Emergence, Singularities, and Symmetry Breaking.

Björnsson, Gunnar and Persson, Karl (2009) Judgments of moral responsibility – a unified account. In [2009] Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 35th Annual Meeting (Bloomington, IN; June 12-14).

Brigandt, Ingo (2009) Scientific Reasoning Is Material Inference: Combining Confirmation, Discovery, and Explanation.

De Winter, Jan (2009) Explanations in Software Engineering: The Pragmatic Point of View.

Dorato, Mauro and Felline, Laura (2009) Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism.

Ducheyne, Steffen (2009) Understanding (in) Newton’s Argument for Universal Gravitation..

Instructions, Submission (2009) Submission instructions for [2009] Evidence, Science, and Public Policy (Sydney, March 26-28). In [2009] Evidence, Science, and Public Policy (Sydney, March 26-28).

Karaca, Koray (2009) A Study in Theory Unification: The case of Kaluza-Klein Theories.

Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2009) Simulation and the Sense of Understanding. In [2009] Models and Simulations 3 (Charlottesville, Virginia; March 5-7, 2009).

Morita, Kunihisa (2009) A Role of Models in Scientific Explanation. In [2009] Metaphysics of Science (Melbourne, July 2-5, 2009).

Persson, Johannes (2009) Three conceptions of explaining how possibly—and one reductive account. In [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009): EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.

Wayne, Andrew (2009) Emergence and Singular Limits.

Ballinger, Clint (2008) Classifying Contingency in the Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency.

Burian, Richard (2008) Selection Does Not Operate Primarily on Genes.

Fenton, Andrew (2008) Re-conceiving nonhuman animal knowledge through contemporary primate cognitive studies. In [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

Frost-Arnold, Greg (2008) The Limits of Scientific Explanation and the No-Miracles Argument. In [2008] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 21st Biennial Mtg (Pittsburgh, PA): PSA 2008 Contributed Papers.

Goodwin, William (2008) Visual Representations in Science.

Griesel, Carsten (2008) The Type-Token Distinction and the Mind and Brain Sciences. In [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

Jackson, John (2008) Definitional Argument in Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. In [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2008) Varieties of Modularity for Causal and Constitutive Explanations. In [2008] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 21st Biennial Mtg (Pittsburgh, PA): PSA 2008 Contributed Papers.

List, Christian and Menzies, Peter (2008) Non-Reductive Physicalism and the Limits of the Exclusion Principle.

Northcott, Robert (2008) Innateness and Science. In [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

Reydon, Thomas (2008) How to Fix Kind Membership: A Problem for HPC-Theory and a Solution. In [2008] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 21st Biennial Mtg (Pittsburgh, PA): PSA 2008 Contributed Papers.

Sapienza, Carmen (2008) Selection Does Operate Primarily on Genes: In Defense of the Gene as the Unit of Selection.

Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel (2008) World Theory.

Székely, Gergely (2008) On Why-Questions in Physics.

Tabery, James (2008) Difference Mechanisms. In [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

van Riel, Raphael (2008) From Water to H2O – What Reduction is About. In [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

Vromen, Jack, J. (2008) MICRO-FOUNDATIONS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT:
SQUARING COLEMAN’S DIAGRAM. In [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

Wayne, Andrew (2008) Emergence, Singular Limits and Basal Explanation.

Wayne, Andrew (2008) Explanatory Idealizations. In [2007] Models and Simulations 2 (Tilburg, NL).

Woodward, James (2008) Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms.

Chemero, Tony and Silberstein, Michael (2007) After the Philosophy of Mind: Replacing Scholasticism with Science.

Conference, Synopsis (2007) Synopsis: Causality, Mechanisms, and Psychology. In [2007] Workshop: Causality, Mechanisms, and Psychology (Pittsburgh, PA; 24 February, 2007).

Craig, David (2007) A Theory of Theories. In [2007] LSE-Pitt Conference: Confirmation, Induction and Science (London, 8 - 10 March, 2007).

Ducheyne, Steffen (2007) The General Scholium: Some Notes on Newton's Published and Unpublished Endeavours.

Faye, Jan (2007) Interpretation in the Natural Sciences. In [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Franceschi, Paul (2007) Le paradoxe des deux enveloppes et le choix de l'indifférence.

Glennan, Stuart (2007) Mechanisms, Causes and the Layered Model of the World.

Grüne-Yanoff, Till (2007) The Explanatory Potential of Artificial Societies.

Hagar, Amit (2007) Length Matters (I) - The Einstein--Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to the Special Theory
of Relativity. In [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Hagar, Amit (2007) Length Matters (I): The Einstein-Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to STR. In [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Hardy-Vallée, Benoit (2007) Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective.

Hindriks, Frank (2007) Concretization, Explanation, and Mechanisms. In [2007] Models and Simulations 2 (Tilburg, NL).

Longy, Françoise (2007) Artifacts and Organisms: A Case for a New Etiological Theory of Functions.

Marcus, Russell (2007) Intrinsic Explanation and Field's Dispensabilist Strategy. In [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

Maxwell, Nicholas (2007) Is the Quantum World Composed of Propensitons?.

Persson, Johannes (2007) Mechanism-as-activity and the threat of polygenic effects. In [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Schindler, Samuel (2007) Explaining without the Real.

Bogen, Jim (2006) Causally Productive Activities.

Davies, E Brian (2006) Scientific Understanding.

de Regt, Henk W. (2006) Modelling Molecules: Beyond the Epistemic-Pragmatic Dichotomy. In [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver): PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Goodwin, William Mark (2006) Diagrams and Explanation in Organic Chemistry.

Goodwin, William Mark (2006) Visual Representations in Science. In [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver): PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Hattiangadi, Jagdish (2006) On the True Method of Induction
or
Investigative Induction: Real But Invisible. In [2007] LSE-Pitt Conference: Confirmation, Induction and Science (London, 8 - 10 March, 2007).

hunean, philippe (2006) Naturalising purpose:
From comparative anatomy to the ‘adventures of reason’.

huneman, philippe (2006) Evolutionary theory in philosophical focus .

Imbert, Cyrille (2006) Can simulations be explanatory an why do they seem not to be?. In [2006] Models and Simulations (Paris, 2006).

Johnson, Monte and Wilson, Catherine (2006) Lucretius and the History of Science.

Kuhlmann, Meinard (2006) How Do Microscopic Models of Financial Markets Explain?. In [2006] Models and Simulations (Paris, 2006), Paris.

Páez, Andrés (2006) The Epistemic Value of Explanation. In [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver): PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Potochnik, Angela (2006) Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality. In [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver): PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Sustar, Predrag (2006) Neo-Functional Analysis: Phylogenetical Restrictions on Causal Role Functions. In [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver): PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Callender, Craig (2005) An Answer in Search of a Question: 'Proofs' of the Tri-Dimensionality of Space.

Ducheyne, Steffen (2005) Mathematical Models in Newton’s Principia: A New View of the “Newtonian Style”.

Franceschi, Paul (2005) A Dichotomic Analysis of the Surprise Examination Paradox .

Hagar, Amit and Hemmo, Meir (2005) Explaining the Unobserved: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Not only About Information.

Kallfelz, William (2005) Contracting Batterman's Asymptotic 'No-Man's Land:' Reduction Rejoins Explanation.

Mathen, Jolly (2005) On the Inherent Incompleteness of Scientific Theories.

Batterman, Robert (2004) Response to Belot's "Whose Devil? Which Details?".

Bod, Rens (2004) Explaining New Phenomena in Terms of Previous Phenomena.

Bod, Rens (2004) From Theory to Technology: Rules versus Exemplars. In [2004] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 19th Biennial Meeting - PSA2004: Contributed Papers (Austin, TX; 2004): PSA 2004 Workshops.

Brown, Harvey R. and Pooley, Oliver (2004) Minkowski space-time: a glorious non-entity.

Callender, Craig (2004) Measures, Explanations and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions be Explained?.

Ducheyne, Steffen (2004) Newton's Idea and Practice of Unification.

Faye, Jan (2004) The Pragmatic-Rhetorical Theory of Explanation.

Liu, Chuang and Emch, Gerard G. (2004) Explaining Quantum Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.

Mathen, Jolly (2004) On the Inherent Incompleteness of Scientific Theories.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2004) Does Probabilism Solve the Great Quantum Mystery?.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2004) Non-Empirical Requirements Scientific Theories Must Satisfy: Simplicity, Unification, Explanation, Beauty .

Mosterin, Jesus (2004) Anthropic Explanations in Cosmology.

Pooley, Oliver (2004) Comments on Sklar's ``Barbour's Relationist Metric of Time''.

Saunders, Simon (2004) Complementarity and Scientific Rationality.

Shapiro, Lawrence (2004) Can Psychology Be A Unified Science?. In Shapiro, Lawrence, Eds. [2004] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 19th Biennial Meeting - PSA2004: Contributed Papers (Austin, TX; 2004): PSA 2004 Contributed Papers, Austin, TX.

Skipper, Robert and Millstein, Roberta (2004) Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection.

Whitcomb, Dennis (2004) Kitcher, Correspondence, and Success.

de Regt, Henk and Dieks, Dennis (2003) A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2003) Three Philosophical Problems about Consciousness and their Possible Resolution.

Muller, Herbert FJ (2003) Effect of Working Ontology on Some Conceptual Puzzles.

Tabery, James (2003) Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism.

Walker, Mark and Cirkovic, Milan (2003) Anthropic Reasoning and the Contemporary Design Argument in Astrophysics: A Reply to Robert Klee.

Bogen, Jim (2002) Analyzing Causality: The opposite of Counterfactual is Factual.

Cohnitz, Daniel (2002) Explanations are like salted peanuts. Why you can't cut the route toward further reduction. .

De Regt, Henk and Dieks, Dennis (2002) A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding.

koepke, william (2002) On the Coupling Constants of the Linear Approximation of Gravity and its Generalization.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2002) The Need for a Revolution in the Philosophy of Science.

Weisberg, Michael (2002) Qualitative Theory and Chemical Explanation.

Bogen, Jim (2001) What We Talk About When We Talk About Causality.

Catton, Philip (2001) The Most Measured Understanding of Spacetime.

Chart, David (2001) Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Feminist Bank Tellers.

Clifton, Rob (2001) The Subtleties of Entanglement and its Role in Quantum Information Theory.

Clifton, Rob and Pope, Damian (2001) On the Nonlocality of the Quantum Channel in the Standard Teleportation Protocol.

Forge, John (2001) Reflections on Structuralism and Scientific Explanation.

Liu, Chuang (2000) Coordination of Space and Unity of Science.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2000) SIMPLICITY.

Shenker, Orly R. (2000) Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics: Some Philosophical Remarks.

Brown, Harvey R. and Pooley, Oliver (1999) The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity.

Clifton, Rob (1998) Scientific Explanation in Quantum Theory.

Green, Christopher D. (1998) Are Connectionist Models Theories of Cognition?.

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (1997) Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung /
Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation.

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (1997) Wie erklärt man mit unsichtbaren Händen? /
How Can Invisible Hands Explain?.

Muller, Herbert FJ (1997) Is the Mind Real ?.

Green, Christopher D. and Vervaeke, John (1996) What Kind of Explanation, If Any, Is a Connectionist Net?.

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