Explanation Theoretical Approaches and Applications / edited by Giora Hon, Sam S. Rakover.

For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in philosophy and psychology. We habitually begin the seminar with some philosophical reflections on explanation - an analysis of the concept and its metaphysical underpinnings. We discuss t...

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Other Authors: Hon, Giora (Editor), Rakover, Sam S. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 302
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505 0 |a Introduction: The Why and How of Explanation: an Analytical Exposition -- 1. Theoretical Approaches -- What Good is An Explanation? -- Explanation and Confirmation: A Bayesian Critique of Inference to the Best Explanation -- Is Explanation A Guide to Inference? A Reply to Wesley C. Salmon -- Reflections of A Bashful Bayesian: A Reply to Peter Lipton -- Knowledge and Explanation in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics -- 2. Applications -- The Explanation of Emotions -- The Deductive-Reconstruction Method and the Catch Model: Methodological and Explanatory Features -- Explaining Religious Utterances by Taking Seriously Super-naturalist (and Naturalist) Claims -- Explanation in Archaeology -- Can Psychological Processes Be Explained? A Call for A Revitalized Behaviorism -- The Use of Error as An Explanatory Category in Politics -- Are There Aesthetic Explanations? -- Name Index. 
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