Representing and Explaining: The Eikonic Conception of Scientific Explanation

Autor:	Alisa Bokulich
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Philosophy History History and Philosophy of Science 060302 philosophy 05 social sciences Ontic 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 06 humanities and the arts Science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology
Zdroj:	Philosophy of Science. 85:793-805
ISSN:	1539-767X 0031-8248
DOI:	10.1086/699693
Popis:	The ontic conception of explanation, according to which explanations are full-bodied things in the world, is fundamentally misguided. I argue instead for what I call the eikonic conception, according to which explanations are the product of an epistemic activity involving representations of the phenomena to be explained. What is explained in the first instance is a particular conceptualization of the explanandum phenomenon, contextualized within a given research program or explanatory project. I conclude that this eikonic conception has a number of benefits, including making better sense of scientific practice and allowing for the full range of normative constraints on explanation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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