Synthese Library

Theoretical Approaches and Applications

By: Giora Hon (Editor), Sam S. Rakover (Editor)

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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 the various models and proceed to examine explanation in the setting of psychology. Thus, from the outset, we have focused not only on the concept itself but also on its application. The objective that we have set for the seminar, attended by students from both departments, Philosophy and Psychology, has been a critical understanding of the concept of explanation, its use and limitations. We were keen on deepening our understanding of the concept and on exploring its applications in fields of knowledge other than psychology. This was the motivation for convening an international conference on explanation and its application. The conference took place in the spring of 1998 under the auspices of the University of Haifa. The present book is the fruit of this meeting. The reader should note that the second part of the Introduction presents a detailed analytical account of the book. We hope that this overview will facilitate efficient use of the book by directing the reader's attention to those issues that might be of interest to him or her.

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Preface	p. ix
Contributing Authors	p. xi
Introduction: The Why and How of Explanation: an Analytical Exposition	p. 1
Theoretical Approaches
What Good is An Explanation?	p. 43
Explanation and Confirmation: A Bayesian Critique of Inference to the Best Explanation	p. 61
Is Explanation A Guide to Inference? A Reply to Wesley C. Salmon	p. 93
Reflections of A Bashful Bayesian: A Reply to Peter Lipton	p. 121
Knowledge and Explanation in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics	p. 137
Applications
The Use of Explanation
The Explanation of Emotions	p. 167
The Deductive-Reconstruction Method and the Catch Model: Methodological and Explanatory Features	p. 185
Explaining Religious Utterances by Taking Seriously Super-naturalist (and Naturalist) Claims	p. 207
Explanation in Archaeology	p. 231
The Limits of Explanation
Can Psychological Processes Be Explained? A Call for A Revitalized Behaviorism	p. 251
The Use of Error as An Explanatory Category in Politics	p. 277
Are There Aesthetic Explanations?	p. 307
Name Index	p. 327
Subject Index	p. 331
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