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Book Synopsis The Context of Explanation by : M. Bunzl
Download or read book The Context of Explanation written by M. Bunzl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science. Bunzl argues that any successful account of explanation must deal with two very different contexts - one static and one dynamic. Traditionally, theories of explanation have been built for the former of these two contexts. That is to say, they are designed to show how it is that a 'finished' body of scientific knowledge can be put to explanatory use. But finished sciences are few and far between. Real 'explanation' also occurs in a dynamical context in which questions are asked and answers are given as theories are in the process of being constructed. Here, Bunzl argues that attending to explanation produced under these dynamic circumstances undermines prominent features of the theory of explanation produced in the traditional static context.
Book Synopsis Everyday Metaphysical Explanation by : Kristie Miller
Download or read book Everyday Metaphysical Explanation written by Kristie Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical notion of metaphysical explanation has been subject to an increased level of attention in the previous decade. Despite tantalising claims about how metaphysical explanations are part of everyday life, the everyday notion has not been explored. In Everyday Metaphysical Explanation, Kristie Miller and James Norton take up the task of developing an account of the everyday notion of metaphysical explanation: the notion that we all use in ordinary contexts when we ask for, and receive, explanations of a certain sort. Building on the striking results of their empirical investigation of folk judgements regarding what metaphysically explains what, together with evidence of our ordinary practices surrounding the notion, they build three unique accounts of the phenomenon.
Book Synopsis The Explanation of Crime by : Per-Olof H. Wikström
Download or read book The Explanation of Crime written by Per-Olof H. Wikström and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible. Concentrating on three key concepts: context, mechanisms, and development, this volume aims to advance integrated scientific knowledge on crime causation by bringing together different scholarly approaches. Through an analysis of the roles of behavioural contexts and individual differences in crime causation, The Explanation of Crime seeks to provide a unified and focused approach to the integration of knowledge. Chapter topics range from individual genetics to family environments and from ecological behaviour settings to the macro-level context of communities and social systems. This is a comprehensive treatment of the problem of crime causation that will appeal to graduate students and researchers in criminology and be of great interest to policy-makers and practitioners in crime policy and prevention.
Book Synopsis Explanation, Quantity and Law by : John Forge
Download or read book Explanation, Quantity and Law written by John Forge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, this work sets out to give an account of explanation which is adequate to the problems that arise when looking at physical science. It offers a theory of explanation with supporting analysis, and also an application to the task of giving an account of explanation in quantum mechanics.
Book Synopsis The Art of Explanation by : Lee LeFever
Download or read book The Art of Explanation written by Lee LeFever and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist. You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. People just don't see the big idea - and it's keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem. The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving explanation problems. Author Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft, a company known around the world for making complex ideas easy to understand through short animated videos. He is your guide to helping audiences fall in love with your ideas, products or services through better explanations in any medium. You will learn to: Plan: Learn explanation basics, what causes them to fail and how to diagnose explanation problems. Package: Using simple elements, create an explanation strategy that builds confidence and motivates your audience. Present: Produce remarkable explanations with visuals and media. The Art of Explanation is your invitation to become an explanation specialist and see why explanation is now a fundamental skill for professionals.
Download or read book Meaning and Method written by Isaac Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.
Book Synopsis Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation by : Dennis Dieks
Download or read book Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation written by Dennis Dieks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. Five general topics are addressed: 1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science; 2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences; 3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences; 4. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences; 5. History of the Philosophy of Science. This volume is accordingly divided in five sections, each section containing papers coming from the meetings focussing on one of these five themes. However, these sections are not completely independent and detached from each other. For example, an important connecting thread running through a substantial number of papers in this volume is the concept of probability: probability plays a central role in present-day discussions in formal epistemology, in the philosophy of the physical sciences, and in general methodological debates---it is central in discussions concerning explanation, prediction and confirmation. The volume thus also attempts to represent the intellectual exchange between the various fields in the philosophy of science that was central in the ESF workshops.
Book Synopsis Oswaal NTA CUET (UG) Question Banks | Chapterwise & Topicwise | English, Accountancy, Business Studies, General Test & Economics | Set of 5 Books | Entrance Exam Preparation Books 2025 by : Oswaal Editorial Board
Download or read book Oswaal NTA CUET (UG) Question Banks | Chapterwise & Topicwise | English, Accountancy, Business Studies, General Test & Economics | Set of 5 Books | Entrance Exam Preparation Books 2025 written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the product: • 20 Mock Test Papers for Real-Time Practice • 1000+Questions for Comprehensive coverage • Answer Key with Explanations for Concept Clarity • OMR Sheets for Exam Experience
Book Synopsis Oswaal NTA CUET (UG)| Question Bank Chapterwise & Topicwise English For 2024 Exam by : Oswaal Editorial Board
Download or read book Oswaal NTA CUET (UG)| Question Bank Chapterwise & Topicwise English For 2024 Exam written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the product: • Strictly as per the Latest Exam Pattern issued by NTA • 100% Updated with 2023 Exam Paper • Previous Years’ Questions (2021-2023) for better Exam insights • Revision Notes for Crisp Revision with Smart Mind Maps • Concept Videos for complex concepts clarity • 800+Questions for Extensive Practice
Book Synopsis Sociobiology, Sex, and Science by : Harmon R. Holcomb
Download or read book Sociobiology, Sex, and Science written by Harmon R. Holcomb and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines sociobiologys validity and significance, using the sociobiological theory of the evolution of mating and parenting as an example. It identifies and discusses the array of factors that determine sociobiologys effort to become a science, providing a rare, balanced accountmore critical than that of its advocates and more constructive than that of its critics. It sees a role for sociobiology in changing the way we understand the goals of evolutionary biology, the proper way to evaluate emerging sciences, and the deep structure of scientific theories. The books premise is that evolutionary biology would not be complete if it did not explain evolutionarily significant social facts about nonhumans and humans. It proposes that explanations should be evaluated in terms of their basis in underlying theories, research programs, and conceptual frameworks.
Book Synopsis Evaluating Explanations by : David B. Leake
Download or read book Evaluating Explanations written by David B. Leake and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology and philosophy have long studied the nature and role of explanation. More recently, artificial intelligence research has developed promising theories of how explanation facilitates learning and generalization. By using explanations to guide learning, explanation-based methods allow reliable learning of new concepts in complex situations, often from observing a single example. The author of this volume, however, argues that explanation-based learning research has neglected key issues in explanation construction and evaluation. By examining the issues in the context of a story understanding system that explains novel events in news stories, the author shows that the standard assumptions do not apply to complex real-world domains. An alternative theory is presented, one that demonstrates that context -- involving both explainer beliefs and goals -- is crucial in deciding an explanation's goodness and that a theory of the possible contexts can be used to determine which explanations are appropriate. This important view is demonstrated with examples of the performance of ACCEPTER, a computer system for story understanding, anomaly detection, and explanation evaluation.
Book Synopsis Oswaal NTA CUET (UG) Question Banks | Chapterwise & Topicwise | English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology & General Test | Set of 5 Books | Entrance Exam Preparation Books 2024 by : Oswaal Editorial Board
Download or read book Oswaal NTA CUET (UG) Question Banks | Chapterwise & Topicwise | English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology & General Test | Set of 5 Books | Entrance Exam Preparation Books 2024 written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the Product: •100% Exam Ready With 2023 CUET(UG) Exam Papers – Fully Solved with Explanations •Concept Clarity: With Revision Notes & Chapter Analysis with updated pattern •Extensive Practice With 800 + Practice Questions of Previous Years (2021-2023) •Fill Learning Gaps with Smart Mind Maps & Concept Videos •Valuable Exam Insights With Tips & Tricks to ace CUET (UG) in 1st Attempt
Book Synopsis Oswaal NTA CUET (UG) Question Banks | Chapterwise & Topicwise | English, Physics, Chemistry, Math & General Test | Set of 5 Books | Entrance Exam Preparation Books 2024 by : Oswaal Editorial Board
Download or read book Oswaal NTA CUET (UG) Question Banks | Chapterwise & Topicwise | English, Physics, Chemistry, Math & General Test | Set of 5 Books | Entrance Exam Preparation Books 2024 written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the Product: •100% Exam Ready With 2023 CUET(UG) Exam Papers – Fully Solved with Explanations •Concept Clarity: With Revision Notes & Chapter Analysis with updated pattern •Extensive Practice With 800 + Practice Questions of Previous Years (2021-2023) •Fill Learning Gaps with Smart Mind Maps & Concept Videos •Valuable Exam Insights With Tips & Tricks to ace CUET (UG) in 1st Attempt
Book Synopsis Social Science Methodology by : John Gerring
Download or read book Social Science Methodology written by John Gerring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology, relevant to the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. It is written for beginning students, long-time practitioners and methodologists, and applies to work conducted in qualitative and quantitative styles. It synthesizes the vast and diverse field of methodology in a way that is clear, concise, and comprehensive. While offering a handy overview of the subject, the book is also an argument about how we should conceptualize methodological problems. Tasks and criteria, the author argues-not fixed rules of procedure-best describe the search for methodological adequacy. Thinking about methodology through this lens provides a new framework for understanding work in the social sciences.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics by : Ricki Bliss
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics written by Ricki Bliss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years. Perhaps nowhere are these discussions more developed than in relation to the field of metaphysics. The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics is an outstanding reference source to this growing subject. It comprises thirty-eight chapters written by leading international contributors, and is arranged around five themes: • The history of metametaphysics • Neo-Quineanism (and its objectors) • Alternative conceptions of metaphysics • The epistemology of metaphysics • Science and metaphysics. Essential reading for students and researchers in metaphysics, philosophical methodology, and ontology, The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics will also be of interest to those in closely related subjects such as philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of science.
Book Synopsis Oswaal One For All Olympiad Class 6 English | Previous Years Solved Papers | For 2024-25 Exam by : Oswaal Editorial Board
Download or read book Oswaal One For All Olympiad Class 6 English | Previous Years Solved Papers | For 2024-25 Exam written by Oswaal Editorial Board and published by Oswaal Books. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the Product: • Crisp Revision with Concept-wise Revision Notes & Mind Maps • 100% Exam Readiness with Previous Years’ Questions from all leading • • • • Olympiads like IMO, NSO, ISO & Hindustan Olympiad. • Valuable Exam Insights with 3 Levels of Questions-Level1,2 & Achievers • Concept Clarity with 500+ Concepts & 50+ Concepts Videos • Extensive Practice with Level 1 & Level 2 Practice Papers
Book Synopsis Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science by : Jan De Winter
Download or read book Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science written by Jan De Winter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific research is often influenced by financial interests, political interests, or personal career interests of the scientists involved. For instance, the pharmaceutical giant Merck manipulated clinical trial data in order to make sure that data confirmed the safety of one of its products, Vioxx, in order to serve the company’s short-term commercial interests. This case is obviously unacceptable. But why exactly is it unacceptable? One way to account for this judgment is on the basis of the ideal of purity. According to this ideal, scientific decision-making should be pure— that is, unaffected by financial interests, political interests, career interests, and so on. Although this ideal is questionable, many people (including philosophers of science) still hold on to it. In Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science: A New Framework to Assess Interest Influences in Scientific Research Processes, Jan De Winter first argues that it is better to fully abandon the ideal of purity, then proposes an alternative ideal to assess interest influences in science: the ideal of epistemic integrity. He spells out and systematically defends a new concept of epistemic integrity, using it not only to analyze the Vioxx debacle, but also to identify unacceptable interest influences in aerospace science, climate science, and biology, and to explain exactly why these interest influences are unacceptable. These analyses make a compelling case for the new concept of epistemic integrity which will be interesting and useful for philosophers of science, scientists, engineers, science policymakers, and anyone else concerned about the integrity of science.
