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Author | : T. Poston |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-08-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1137012269 |
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In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.
Author | : L. Magnani |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-06-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 144198562X |
Download Abduction, Reason and Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems. It lays out a useful general framework for discussion of a variety of kinds of abduction. It develops important ideas about aspects of abductive reasoning that have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, including the use of visual and temporal representations and the role of abduction in the withdrawal of hypotheses.
Author | : Mark Schroeder |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191022926 |
Download Explaining the Reasons We Share Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Normative ethical theories generally purport to be explanatory--to tell us not just what is good, or what conduct is right, but why. Drawing on both historical and contemporary approaches, Mark Schroeder offers a distinctive picture of how such explanations must work, and of the specific commitments that they incur. According to Schroeder, explanatory moral theories can be perfectly general only if they are reductive, offering accounts of what it is for something to be good, right, or what someone ought to do. So ambitious, highly general normative ethical theorizing is continuous with metaethical inquiry. Moreover, he argues that such explanatory theories face a special challenge in accounting for reasons or obligations that are universally shared, and develops an autonomy-based strategy for meeting this challenge, in the case of requirements of rationality. Explaining the Reasons We Share pulls together over a decade of work by one of the leading figures in contemporary metaethics. One new and ten previously published papers weave together treatments of reasons, reduction, supervenience, instrumental rationality, and legislation, to paint a sharp contrast between two plausible but competing pictures of the nature and limits of moral explanation--one from Cudworth and one indebted to Kant. A substantive new introduction provides a map to reading these essays as a unified argument, and qualifies their conclusions in light of Schroeder's current views. Along with its sister volume, Expressing Our Attitudes, this volume advances the theme that metaethical inquiry is continuous with other areas of philosophy.
Author | : Michael Waldmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0199399557 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect relations. Without our ability to discover and empirically test causal theories, we would not have made progress in various empirical sciences. The handbook brings together the leading researchers in the field of causal reasoning and offers state-of-the-art presentations of theories and research. It provides introductions of competing theories of causal reasoning, and discusses its role in various cognitive functions and domains. The final section presents research from neighboring fields.
Author | : David Landy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351383248 |
Download Hume’s Science of Human Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume’s Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume’s methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
Author | : DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB |
Publisher | : DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
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Download CUET-PG Commerce Chapter Wise Question Bank Book 3000+ MCQ With Explanation As Per Updated Syllabus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
CUET-PG Commerce [Code- COQP08] Question Bank Unit Wise 3000 MCQ As Per Updated Syllabus 1. CUET-PG Commerce Question Bank Include 3000+ Question Answer 2. In Each Unit Given 125 Most Expected Question Answer total 3000 MCQ 3. Include Hard Level Questions Asseration & Reason & Statement Type Questiosn 4. As per Updated Syllabus & Pattern 5. Design by Expert Faculty 6. Cover all 24 Chapters MCQ
Author | : Giora Hon |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401597316 |
Download Explanation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Peter Róna |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 303026114X |
Download Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships encountered in social life. The idea that social reality is contingent has been known (and largely undisputed) at least since Wittgenstein’s “On Certainty”, but social science, and most notably economics has continued to operate on the basis of causal and agency theories borrowed or adapted from the natural sciences. This volume contains essays that retain and justify the partial or qualified use of this approach and essays that totally reject any use of causal and agency theory built on determined facts (closed systems).The rejection is based on the possibly original claim that, whereas causation in the objects of the natural sciences reside in their properties, human action is a matter of intentionality. It engages with critical realist theory and re-examines the role of free will in theories of human action in general and economic theory in particular.
Author | : Judea Pearl |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0465097618 |
Download The Book of Why Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.
Author | : Yannic Kappes |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2023-08-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3111069508 |
Download Empty-Base Explanation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book develops and applies a novel kind of explanation: Empty-Base Explanation. While ordinary explanations have a tripartite structure involving an explanandum, a base of reasons why the explanandum obtains, and a link that connects the reasons to the explanandum, this book argues that there are explanations whose corresponding set of reasons is empty. This novel idea is located in the theoretical background of several fundamental philosophical issues. For example, it provides a convincing kind of ultimate or final explanation that completely and conclusively explains a phenomenon without involving other phenomena for which further explanations could be demanded. The possibility and fruitfulness of empty-base explanation is defended by general considerations from the theory of explanation, as well as concrete applications to the practice of explanation by status, the explanation of logical theorems, causal connections, and laws of nature, self-explanation, the use of IBE in metaphysics, the notion of zero-ground (which it provides with a solid theoretical footing), and ultimate explanation and its application to philosophical cosmology, the debate about the PSR, and the question of why there is anything at all. For this book, Yannic Kappes has received the 2022 De Gruyter Prize for Ontology and Metaphysics from the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).