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Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism
Structural explanation quantum mechanics model
2009/9/16
In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, t...
Scientific Reasoning Is Material Inference: Combining Confirmation, Discovery, and Explanation
inference concepts confirmation induction
2009/9/11
Whereas an inference (deductive as well as inductive) is usually viewed as being valid in virtue of its argument form, the present paper argues that scientific reasoning is material inference, i.e., j...
Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanation
Cause Stability Levels of Explanation Causal Specificity
2009/9/8
This paper attempts to elucidate three characteristics of causal relationships that are significant in biological contexts. Stability has to do with whether a causal relationship continues to hold und...
Explanation, unification, and what chemistry gets from causation
unification causation chemistry
2008/4/22
I consider a way the concept of causation could be excised from chemical practice, suggested by Kitcher's view that causes are just a subset of unifying patterns which play a particular psychological ...
The pragmatic theory of explanation is an attempt to see explanation as a linguistic response to a cognitive problem where the content of the response depends on the context of the scientific inquiry....
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...
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...
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...