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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Scientific Explanation"”.
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The Epistemic and Ontic Conceptions of Scientific Explanation
While Wesley Salmon attributes the debate on scientific explanation between Carl Hempel and Peter Railton (or between the epistemic and ontic conceptions of scientific explanation, more generally) as one over which conception of explanation is correct, I claim that Hempel and Railton were …
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Language and scientific explanation: where does semantics fit in?
… above its formal and syntactic aspects? Within a scientific framework, what makes it the case that the word ‘teaspoon’ or the sentence ‘There is a flower in my coffee mug’ mean what they do? Is the meaning of an uttered word only dependent upon mind-internal properties? Or must we make use of …
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The influence of an inherence heuristic on scientific explanation
Although scientific reasoning is usually deliberate, it may also be influenced by the intuitive processes involved in everyday reasoning. Here, I investigated whether explanatory heuristic processes biased towards inherence (that is, the tendency to oversample easily-accessible inherent facts; …
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Against the Linguistic Strategy for the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation
… are interested in characterizing the nature of scientific explanation. Much of the debate has been about which format or structures best represent, and thus explain, scientific phenomena. Pushing back against these representational views, Craver has been developing an ontic account of scientific …
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The effects of computer animation and cognitive style on the understanding and retention of scientific explanation
… of the problem-solving and retention of scientific concepts in computer based modules across learners possessing different cognitive styles. In this study, 121 undergraduate and graduate students were classified as field-independent, field-neutral, or field-dependent as a result of their …
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Towards a Characterisation of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Scientific Explanation. An Exploratory Multiple Case Study.
… science practices as a means to achieve scientific literacy. This thesis targets one practice: the construction of explanations. To successfully integrate this practice into their classroom, teachers need a particular body of knowledge known as Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). There …
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The Nature Of Scientific Explanation (NOSE): Using a philosophically guided framework to examine the nature and quality of scientific explanations constructed by freshman college students, science teachers, and practicing scientists
Issues regarding scientific explanation have been of interest to philosophers from Pre-Socratic times. The notion of scientific explanation is of interest not only to philosophers, but also to science educators as is clearly evident in the emphasis given to K-12 students’ construction of …
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Empirical Accuracy and Consistency in College Students' Knowledge of Classical Astronomy
… astronomical phenomena and the nature of those explanations, moving beyond existing research of astronomy misconceptions and shedding new light on the nature of knowledge representation and the stability of knowledge. Fifty college students answered a questionnaire that asked for explanations of …
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A Critique of the Rejection of Intelligent Design as a Scientific Hypothesis by Elliott Sober from His Book Evidence and Evolution
… Sober's dismissal of intelligent design as a scientific hypothesis. Sober builds the case for this dismissal in chapter 2 of his 2008 book Evidence and Evolution. Sober's case against intelligent design as science is a philosophical one, emerging from a Bayesian likelihood approach. Sober …
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Effects of a dialogical argumentation instructional model on grade 10 learners’ conceptions of lightning
… (DAIM); the two groups of learners had both the scientific and the indigenous knowledge about lightning. A majority of the learners believed that lightning is caused by witches and traditional doctors. After being exposed to the DAIM most of the learners in the experimental group were found to …
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Mindcraft: a Dynamical Systems Theory of Cognition
… on the recent literature on mechanisms and scientific explanation, I propose a revised definition of a mechanism that accommodates these dynamical mechanisms, as well as making room for their implementation by physical mechanisms. In the third chapter, I argue that the investigation of a …
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Evaluation Of HIF Inhibitors For The Treatment of Ocular Neovascular Diseases
… lines. The results provide an evidence-based scientific explanation for therapeutic benefits observed with honokiol and berberine. On comparing the anti-HIF effect of both these compounds honokiol was found to possess a better efficacy that exhibited it's effect on the HIF pathway by …
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Women with children first? Parenthood, policies, and gender gaps in three European labour markets
… grounded on causal inference, applied to the scientific explanation of gender gaps as well as to the evaluation of social policies, is advocated for.
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Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love
… challenge to the "factual" appeal of the natural scientific explanation of sadomasochism as articulated by Freud. A comparative analysis between Fromm's and Sartre's theories of sadomasochism is conducted.</p><p> This thesis anchors on Fromm's call for a theory of love and analysis of …
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Scientific realism vs. scientific antirealism
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically approximately true and that their key terms typically refer. The no-miracle argument for the view holds that approximate truth and reference provide the best explanation of the success of science. I try …
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
… analysis. But the knowledge exchange between scientific explanation and literary thinking has a long-standing and largely untold history, dating back to turn-of-the-century America and Europe. Entitled Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971, my Ph.D. thesis tracks the extraordinary amount of …
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Predicting the Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
… by showing how four familiar accounts of scientific explanation can be applied to neural networks. The confusion about explaining AI models is due to the conflation of ‘explainability’, ‘understandability’, and ‘interpretability’. To remedy this, I offer a novel account of …
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Poetics and practical aesthetics in the writings of Gottfried Semper.
… was to render art and architecture the object of scientific investigation and prediction. The dissertation investigates the background and implications of these conflicting concerns. Semper located the origins of architecture in ritual action, more specifically, in the way such action was embodied …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… decade, there has been a growing interest in scientific practices as a reform focus in K-12 science education of the United States. In this context, scientific practices refer to practices that have family resemblance to scientists' professional practices and simultaneously are pedagogically …
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The Epistemology of Explainable AI: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
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