Add to ORKGWhat is an explanation? Mainstream philosophy of science has providedtwo answers to this question. According to the traditional model, an explanation is an attempt to unify a relatively broad body of phenomena under the umbrella of a stable set of generalizations. Its prime objective is to accommodate observable data within the most economical group of regu
Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener, Lorenz Habenicht, and Julian Blohm discuss the dialogic form of expla...
Mechanistic explanations reveal the rich causal structure of the world we inhabit. For instance, an ...
Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener, Lorenz Habenicht, and Julian Blohm discuss the dialogic form of expla...
Although Analytical Sociology is not often used in mainstream Sociology, its history is, however, tr...
[eng] Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of scie...
This paper explores the question of whether all or most explanations in bi-ology are, or ideally sho...
Explanation, Explanation by Mechanisms, Causality, Causal Analysis, Hempel-Oppenheim explanation,
Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanation have attracted considerable attention in the socia...
Abstract. My main claim is that explanations are fundamentally about relations between concepts and ...
Explanations implicitly end with something that makes sense, and begin with something that does not ...
Explanations implicitly end with something that makes sense, and begin with something that does not ...
The present paper critically examines the main claims of the new mechanist account of explanation de...
Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of science. G...
AbstractIn the philosophy of science nowadays there are some models of scientific explanation: synta...
One thing about technical artefacts that needs to be explained is how their physical make-up, or str...
Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener, Lorenz Habenicht, and Julian Blohm discuss the dialogic form of expla...
Mechanistic explanations reveal the rich causal structure of the world we inhabit. For instance, an ...
Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener, Lorenz Habenicht, and Julian Blohm discuss the dialogic form of expla...
Although Analytical Sociology is not often used in mainstream Sociology, its history is, however, tr...
[eng] Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of scie...
This paper explores the question of whether all or most explanations in bi-ology are, or ideally sho...
Explanation, Explanation by Mechanisms, Causality, Causal Analysis, Hempel-Oppenheim explanation,
Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanation have attracted considerable attention in the socia...
Abstract. My main claim is that explanations are fundamentally about relations between concepts and ...
Explanations implicitly end with something that makes sense, and begin with something that does not ...
Explanations implicitly end with something that makes sense, and begin with something that does not ...
The present paper critically examines the main claims of the new mechanist account of explanation de...
Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of science. G...
AbstractIn the philosophy of science nowadays there are some models of scientific explanation: synta...
One thing about technical artefacts that needs to be explained is how their physical make-up, or str...
Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener, Lorenz Habenicht, and Julian Blohm discuss the dialogic form of expla...
Mechanistic explanations reveal the rich causal structure of the world we inhabit. For instance, an ...
Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener, Lorenz Habenicht, and Julian Blohm discuss the dialogic form of expla...