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Thought Experiments and the Inference to a Coherent Explanation
thought experiment scientific explanation
2008/4/21
This talk proposes a solution to the "paradox of thought experiments": how seemingly new empirical insights are derived by “thought experiments” which are entirely conducted inside one’s head, so to s...
What Kind of Explanation, If Any, Is a Connectionist Net?
explantion causation connectionism
2008/4/18
Connectionist models of cognition are all the rage these days. They are said to provide better explanations than traditional symbolic computational models in a wide array of cognitive areas, from perc...
The purpose of this paper is to expound and clarify the mathematics and explanations commonly employed in certain notable areas of astronomy and astrophysics. The first section concentrates upon the m...
Philosophy of mathematics for the last half-century has been dominated in one way or another by Quine’s indispensability argument. The argument alleges that our best scientific theory quantifies over,...
Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Feminist Bank Tellers
Bayesianism Inference to the Best Explanation
2008/4/14
Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism have both been proposed as descriptions of the way that people make inferences. This paper argues that one result from cognitive psychology, the "femi...
Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung /Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation
Erklä rung Gedankenexperiment
2008/4/14
This essay evaluates the epistemic potential of the scientific method of 'thought experiments', i.e. how far one can progress in science by just thinking about experimental situations without doing re...
Contracting Batterman's Asymptotic 'No-Man's Land:' Reduction Rejoins Explanation
Asymptotics Explanation and reduction
2008/4/11
The notion of emergence has received much renewed attention recently. Most of the authors I review (§ II), including most notably Robert Batterman (2002, 2003, 2004) share the common aim of providing ...
Recent work on emergence in physics has focused on the presence of singular limit relations between basal and upper-level theories as a criterion for emergence. However, over-emphasis on the role of s...
Organic chemists have been able to develop a robust, theoretical understanding of the phenomena they study; however, the primary theoretical devices employed in this field are not mathematical equatio...
Concretization, Explanation, and Mechanisms
abstraction idealization concretization explanation understanding
2008/4/10
Traditional accounts of explanation fail to illuminate the explanatory relevance of “models that are descriptively false” in the sense that the regularities they entail fail to obtain. In this paper, ...
Computational Modeling vs. Computational Explanation: Is Everything a Turing Machine, and Does It Matter to the Philosophy of Mind?
computationalism computational theory of mind computational modeling
2008/4/10
According to pancomputationalism, everything is a computing system. In this paper, I distinguish between different varieties of pancomputationalism. I find that although some varieties are more plausi...
Causes without Mechanisms: Experimental Regularities, Physical Laws, and Neuroscientific Explanation
Causes Mechanisms
2008/4/10
This paper examines the role of experimental generalizations and physical laws in neuroscientific explanations, using Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s electrophysiological model from 1952 as a test case. I show...
Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy, ed. by Joseph E. Earley, Sr., New York, 2003 (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 988) xiii + 377 pp. [ISBN 1-57331-456-0 cloth, 1-57331-457-9paper]
Chemical Explanation Characteristics
2008/4/3
Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy is a collection of 40 articles presented at the Sixth Summer Symposium on the Philosophy of Chemistry and Biochemistry held by the Internat...
The Functional-Analogical Explanation in Chinese Science and Technology
Functional-Analogical Explanation Chinese Science and Technology
2008/3/29
Philosophy offers the culture of science and technology a certain researchtradition composed of two elements, ontological assumptions and epistemological-methodological principles, which restricts spe...
Scientific explanation usually is considered as a thesis of justification even though the distinction between discovery and justification has been subject to many criticisms. In contrast with the prev...