Author : K. J. W. Craik
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1967-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521094450
In his only complete work of any length, Kenneth Craik considers thought as a term for the conscious working of a highly complex machine.
Author : Kenneth James Williams Craik
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Causation
ISBN :
In his brilliant and tragically brief career, Kenneth Craik anticipated certain ideas which since his death in 1945 have found wide acceptance. As one of the first to realise that machines share with the brain certain principles of functioning, Craik was a pioneer in the development of physiological psychology and cybernetics. Craik published only one complete work of any length, this essay on The Nature of Explanation. Here he considers thought as a term for the conscious working of a highly complex machine, viewing the brain as a calculating machine which can model or parallel external events, a process that is the basic feature of thought and explanation. He applies this view to a number of psychological and philosophical problems (such as paradox and illusion) and suggests possible experiments to test his theory. This book is of interest to those concerned with the concepts of brain and mind.
Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Explanation
ISBN : 019503743X
A new approach to the definition of scientific explanation. Unlike standard theories, it focuses initially on the explaining act itself, to which reference must be made in order to understand what an explanation is and how it can be evaluated in the sciences.
Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1985-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198020767
Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself. From that act, a "product" emerges: an explanation. To understand what that product is, as well as how it can be evaluated in the sciences, reference must be made to the concept of the explaining act. Following an account of the explaining act, its product, and the evaluation of explanations, the theory is brought to bear on these issues: Why have the standard models of scientific explanation been unsuccessful, and can there be a model of the type sought? What is causal explanation, and must explanation in the sciences be causal? What is a functional explanation? The "illocutionary" theory of explanation developed at the outset is used in discussing these issues, and contrasting philosophical viewpoints are assessed.
Author : Jude P. Dougherty
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813220149
In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction.
Author : Kenneth J. W. Craik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521047544
This selection of papers from Kenneth Craik, explores the measurement of perception, sensory physiology and the relationship of nervous function to machines.
Author : Michael Giudice
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1784718815
Understanding the Nature of Law explores methodological questions about how best to explain law. Among these questions, one is central: is there something about law which determines how it should be theorized? This novel book explains the importance of
Author : J. Faye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1137389834
Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1997-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191519669
Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactory account of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the author says in the Preface, 'we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life'.
Author : Rajesh Ranjan Tiwari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000903621
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences. It discusses models of explanation adopted in natural and social sciences. The author also elaborates upon naturalistic and anti-naturalistic views and other types of explanations such as functional, purposive, etc in social science. The volume elaborates upon themes like bridge principle; functional explanation; purposive explanation; teleological explanation; prediction; methodological individualism; methodological collectivism; illocutionary redescription; principle of action; and dispositional explanations to understand whether the explanations given in the realm of social sciences are the same or different from the explanations that are given in the field of natural sciences. This introductory book is a must read for students and scholars of philosophy of science, logic, science and technology studies, social sciences and philosophy in general.
