Titlebook: Rethinking Explanation; JOHANNES PERSSON,PETRI YLIKOSKI Book 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 knowledge.philosophy of scienc

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THE PRAGMATIC-RHETORICAL THEORY OF EXPLANATIONanation in a scientific context should be characterised. Three main approaches appear to be alive today: the . view, the . view, and the . view. Between these three classes of theories little agreement seems possible.

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SOME NOTES ON UNIFICATIONISM AND PROBABILISTIC EXPLANATIONsufficient conditions for something’s being a scientific explanation. This exposition will also make it clear how the unificationist model relates to Hempel’s covering law model, as well as what distinguishes the two.

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SELECTION AND EXPLANATIONose explanations do not transfer to the particular instances of those general truths. Thus natural selection and the selective advantage of speed in escaping predators can explain why healthy, normal, adult gazelles can run fast.

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EXPLAINING WITH EQUILIBRIA68ption of economic (and sometimes biological) explanatory models. For example, economist Edward Lazear has recently (2000) claimed that the adherence to equilibrium concepts is a major factor contributing to the ‘scientific’ status of economics.

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