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1989 •
Poznan Studies in Philosophy: Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History Around Paul A. Roth's Vision of Historical Sciences
Reviving Analytical Philosophy of History2018 •
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Analytic Philosophy of History: Origins, Eclipse, and Revival2016 •
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
Explanation in the Social Sciences: Explanation and Understanding in Social Science1990 •
Hempelian orthodoxy on the nature of explanation in general, and on explanation in the social sciences in particular, holds that(a) full explanations are arguments(b) full explanations must include at least one law(c) reason explanations are causalDavid Ruben disputes (a) and (b) but he does not dispute (c). Nor does he dispute that ‘explanations in both natural and social science need laws in other ways, even when not as part of the explanation itself (p. 97 above). The distance between his view and the covering law theory, he points out, ‘is not as great as it may first appear to be’ (p. 97 above).
1980 •
In this paper I compare some discussions about the history and historiography of the Scientific and the Industrial Revolution, and try to draw lessons with regards to the main categories, sorts of explanation, and styles of reasoning, that historical approaches seem to be committed to use.
This paper argues that it’s a profound mistake to blur the line between practical and theoretical forms of reasoning, as done in the pragmatistic traditions of epistemology prominently exemplified today in Subjective Bayesianism, not least because the diagnosis of bias in science becomes misshapen if the line is blurred. In this paper the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning is articulated in terms of differences in the norms themselves, with the most important being asymmetries in their preemption patterns. Elements of this account have roots in lines of argument found in Aristotle and Kant. The differences between practical and theoretical adduced here explain a certain puzzle: why is it that we (correctly) judge Buridan’s ass to be completely above reproach when he picks (randomly, if necessary) between two identical and equally convenient bales of hay, but that a detective or judge faced with identical evidence for the guilt of two different suspects is decidedly at fault if she should simply “pick” one as the guilty party. The answer is—as it must be—that the standards of reasoning to which we hold the principals accountable in these contrasting cases are categorically different.
American Journal of Sociology
Explanation in Historical Sociology: Narrative, General Theory, and Historically Specific Theory1998 •
This paper focuses on two conflations which frequently appear within the philosophy of history and other fields concerned with action explanation. The first of these, which I call the Conflating View of Reasons, states that the reasons for which we perform actions are reasons why (those events which are) our actions occur. The second, more general conflation, which I call the Conflating View of Action Explanation, states that whatever explains why an agent performed a certain action explains why (that event which was) her action occurred. Both conflations ignore the fact that there are at least two distinct objects that legitimately qualify as objects of action explanation2. As Jennifer Hornsby (1993) has previous suggested, one thing we might wish to explain is ‘why did A do what she did?’ another is, ‘why did the event of her doing it occur?’ I shall argue that when these two views are combined they give rise to a futile debate about explanation in the philosophies of history and the social sciences, and to an almost identical debate in moral psychology and the philosophy of mind. In so doing, I shall also examine a proposed distinction between explaining a phenomenon, and rendering it intelligible. I conclude by distinguishing between four different objects of historical understanding, each of which is to be understood in the light of the aforementioned distinctions between event and thing done, and explanation and intelligibility.
Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
Constitucionalismo Cosmopolita2024 •
Journal of Jesuit Studies
Jesuits and Astrology: Print versus Manuscript2023 •
International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR)
EFFECT OF COMMERCIAL ADS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR.2019 •
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Spectacular Silence: Nihilism, Violence, and AwakeningSociedades Antiguas del Mediterráneo y América: aproximaciones desde el Sur. Actas de Jornadas Patagónicas de Estudios sobre Sociedades Antiguas (UNPA-UASJ) / I Jornadas Virtuales e Internacionales de Historia Antigua. Aportes Teóricos y Metodológicos en Tiempos de Pandemia (UNICEN)
2021. Conversaciones sobre Asiriología y enseñanza. Europa y América Latina: Internacionalizar, cooperar, descentralizar2017 •
International Journal of Environmental Science & Technology
Removal of airborne hexavalent chromium using alginate as a biosorbent2011 •
IX Congreso sobre prevención y represión del blanqueo de dinero, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia.
El nuevo modelo de identificación de la titularidad real del RDL7/2021 y la adaptación a la Directiva 2018/843 [The new model of identification of beneficial ownership of Royal Decree-Law 7/2021 and the adaptation to Directive 2018/843]2024 •
Revue Neurologique
Journées internationales de la Société française de neurologie2007 •
Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems
Process Control in a Press Hardening Production Line with Numerous Process Variables and Quality Criteria2018 •
McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law
From a Top-Down Perspective to Collaborative Management: The Kawésqar People’s Role in their National Park and Reserve2022 •
Panace Revista De Medicina Lenguaje Y Traduccion
Darreichungsformen-Abkürzungen DE-ES: glosario de claves trilíteras utilizadas para indicar la forma galénica en bases farmacéuticas de datos2011 •