Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Matter and Memory', 'Philosophy of Science' and 'The Communists and Peace'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
12 ideas
14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation
|
6754
|
We talk both of 'people' explaining things, and of 'facts' explaining things [Bird]
|
|
6752
|
The objective component of explanations is the things that must exist for the explanation [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation
|
6750
|
Explanations are causal, nomic, psychological, psychoanalytic, Darwinian or functional [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / b. Contrastive explanations
|
6761
|
Contrastive explanations say why one thing happened but not another [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations
|
6758
|
'Covering law' explanations only work if no other explanations are to be found [Bird]
|
|
6759
|
Livers always accompany hearts, but they don't explain hearts [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / l. Probabilistic explanations
|
6756
|
Probabilistic-statistical explanations don't entail the explanandum, but makes it more likely [Bird]
|
|
6760
|
An operation might reduce the probability of death, yet explain a death [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation
|
6785
|
Inference to the Best Explanation is done with facts, so it has to be realist [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation
|
6788
|
Maybe bad explanations are the true ones, in this messy world [Bird]
|
|
6787
|
Which explanation is 'best' is bound to be subjective, and no guide to truth [Bird]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic
|
6751
|
Maybe explanation is so subjective that it cannot be a part of science [Bird]
|