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This paper investigates the working-method of three important philosophers of explanation: Carl Hempel, Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon. We argue that they do three things: (i) construct an explicati...
Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism
structural explanation quantum mechanics model
2011/9/7
In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, t...
Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism
Structural explanation quantum mechanics model
2009/9/16
In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, t...
This paper is about structuralism as a form of reconstructing theories, associated with the work Sneed, Balzar and Moulines among others, and not about "structuralism" is any of its other manifold sen...
In this paper (which is, at best, a work in progress), I discuss different modes of scientific explanation
identified by philosophers
(Hempel, Salmon, Kitcher, Friedman, Hughes)
and
examine how w...
Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung /Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation
Erklä rung Gedankenexperiment
2008/4/14
This essay evaluates the epistemic potential of the scientific method of 'thought experiments', i.e. how far one can progress in science by just thinking about experimental situations without doing re...
Scientific explanation usually is considered as a thesis of justification even though the distinction between discovery and justification has been subject to many criticisms. In contrast with the prev...