The Nature Of Explanation
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Author | : K. J. W. Craik |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1967-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780521094450 |
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In his only complete work of any length, Kenneth Craik considers thought as a term for the conscious working of a highly complex machine.
Author | : K. J. W. Craik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Causation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : K. J. W. Craik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Causation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Achinstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1985-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198020767 |
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Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself. From that act, a "product" emerges: an explanation. To understand what that product is, as well as how it can be evaluated in the sciences, reference must be made to the concept of the explaining act. Following an account of the explaining act, its product, and the evaluation of explanations, the theory is brought to bear on these issues: Why have the standard models of scientific explanation been unsuccessful, and can there be a model of the type sought? What is causal explanation, and must explanation in the sciences be causal? What is a functional explanation? The "illocutionary" theory of explanation developed at the outset is used in discussing these issues, and contrasting philosophical viewpoints are assessed.
Author | : Kenneth James Williams Craik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Causation |
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Author | : Jude P. Dougherty |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2013-01-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813220149 |
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In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction.
Author | : Robert Cummins |
Publisher | : Bradford Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262530651 |
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In exploring the nature of psychological explanation, this book looks at how psychologists theorize about the human ability to calculate, to speak a language and the like. It shows how good theorizing explains or tries to explain such abilities as perception and cognition. It recasts the familiar explanations of "intelligence" and "cognitive capacity" as put forward by philosophers such as Fodor, Dennett, and others in terms of a theory of explanation that makes established doctrine more intelligible to professionals and their students.In particular, the book shows that vestigial adherence to the positivists' D-N model has distorted the view of philosophers of science about what psychologists (and biologists) do and has masked the real nature of explanation. Major sections in the book cover Analysis and Subsumption; Functional Analysis; Understanding Cognitive Capacities; and Historical Reflections.Robert Cummins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. A Bradford Book.
Author | : Kenneth James Williams Craik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Causation |
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Author | : Peter Kosso |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1992-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521426824 |
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Why should we believe what science tells us about the world? Observation data, confirmation of theories, and the explanation of phenomena are all considered in an introductory survey of the philosophy of science.
Author | : Kenneth J. W. Craik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
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