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Reassessing Woodward's account of explanation:regularities,counterfactuals,and non-causal explanations
Explanation Woodward non-causal scaling-laws
2016/6/15
We reassess Woodward’s counterfactual account of explanation in relation to regularity explananda. Woodward (2005) presents an account of causal explanation. We argue, by using an explanation of Kleib...
Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explana- tions of particular events. I discuss several well-known examples and argue that they fail to be non-causal.
Non-local common cause explanations for EPR
Bell’s theorem Bohmian mechanics EPR experiment GRW mass density theory local causality non-local causes
2016/6/13
The paper argues that a causal explanation of the correlated outcomes of EPR-type experiments is desirable and possible. It shows how Bohmian mechanics and the GRW mass density theory offer such an ex...
Segmental reduction in connected speech in German: phonological facts and phonetic explanations.
German phonological facts phonetic explanations.
2014/11/25
Segmental reduction in connected speech in German: phonological facts and phonetic explanations。
Pupils’ Explanations of Natural Phenomena and Their Relationship to Electricity
Natural Phenomena Explanations Elementary School Electricity Nature of Science
2013/2/20
Changes in pupils’ views concerning natural phenomena, some of which are related to electricity, were investigated. Inclusion of phenomena not related to electricity was used, to find out to what exte...
Anomalously steep dips of earthquakes in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki source region and possible explanations
subduction zone the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake focal mechanism fault geometry seamount fault zone structure
2014/4/9
The 2011Mw9.1 Tohoku-Oki earthquake had unusually large slip (over 50 m) concentrated in a relatively small region, with local stress drop inferred to be 5–10 times larger than that found for typical ...
I offer one possible explanation of why inertial and gravitational mass are equal in Newtonian gravitation. I then argue that this is an example of a kind of explanation that is not captured by standa...
Geomorphologic Structure, Characteristics and Processes in the Cangshan Mountains: Explanations for the Formation and Development of the Dali Glaciation
The Dali Glaciation Step-Like Landform Cangshan Mountain
2013/3/6
The area around Cangshan Mountain, located on the southeastern fringes of the Tibetan Plateau, is a key region in terms of revealing the processes involved in the uplifting of the Tibetan Plateau, plu...
Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness
cost overruns explanations large-scale projects theoretical embeddedness transportation infrastructure
2010/8/16
Managing large-scale transportation infrastructure projects is difficult due to frequent misinformation about the costs which results in large cost overruns that often threaten the overall project via...
Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects：Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness
cost overruns explanations large-scale projects theoretical embeddedness transportation infrastructure
2010/3/16
Managing large-scale transportation infrastructure projects is difficult due to frequent misinformation about the costs which results in large cost overruns that often threaten the overall project via...
How Consumers Generate Clickstreams through Web Sites:An Empirical Investigation of Hypertext, Schema, and Mapping Theoretical Explanations
Hypertext Schema Mapping Theoretical Explanations
2009/12/2
When consumers navigate Web sites, they are said to generate a clickstream, i.e., engage in clicking from Web page to Web page. With respect to these clickstreams, hypertext, schema, and mapping theor...
Cultural Explanations for the Persistence of Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: A Critique
Cultural Explanations Migrant Labour Southern Africa
2009/9/11
Cultural Explanations for the Persistence of Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: A Critique .
Explanations in Software Engineering: The Pragmatic Point of View
explanatory pluralism pragmatism explanatory power epistemic interests software engineering
2009/6/24
This article reveals that explanatory practice in software engineering is in accordance with pragmatic explanatory pluralism, which states that explanations should at least partially be evaluated by t...
A cross-over in Mexican and Mexican-American fertility rates：Evidence and explanations for an emerging paradox
fertility Mexican-Americans Mexican-Origin Mexico
2008/12/9
increases have been documented in the fertility rates of third-or-later generation Mexican-Americans in the U.S., particularly at younger ages. These changes necessitate a reexamination of the ubiquit...
Explanations are like salted peanuts. Why you can't cut the route toward further reduction.
explanation ideal text Batterman reduction
2008/4/22
This paper is a defense of an elaborated ideal explanatory text conception against criticism as put forward by Bob Batterman. It is argued that Batterman's critique of "philosophical" accounts of scie...