A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNIFICATION ACCOUNT OF EXPLANATION

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Journal: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS Year:2012 | Volume:7 | Issue:20 Page(s): 91-112

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNIFICATION ACCOUNT OF EXPLANATION

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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONQ2

REASONINGQ2

DN MODELQ2

KITCHERQ2

UNIFICATIONQ3

ARGUMENT PATTERNQ2

UNDERSTANDINGQ2

Abstract

Explanation is one of the most important issues in the philosophy of science, which many attentions have been paid to it since Aristotle. The UNIFICATION account of explanation, first presented by Friedman (1974), is one of the most discussed contemporary models. According to this conception, SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION has to show that many separated ARGUMENT PATTERNs have basic similarities and via these similarities we can understand related phenomena deeper. Philip KITCHER has extended this idea and has argued that SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION aims to represent a maximum of facts and natural regularities in terms of minimum of theoretical concepts and assumptions. According to KITCHER, a few of ARGUMENT PATTERNs can be used in the explanation of many beliefs, and so we can show that how SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION amounts to UNDERSTANDING. However, the UNIFICATION account of explanation faces some problems, including the point that the relationship between UNIFICATION and UNDERSTANDING is not clear. Another difficulty concerns the relationship between explanation and the causal direction. In this paper, after presenting the main features of the UNIFICATION account of explanation and its merits over the classical D-N model, it will be argued that due to some problems in the UNIFICATION account it seem that the best way to round about these problems is to adopt a kind of explanatory “pluralism”, depending on different philosophical and scientific contexts.

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AZAD, HODA. (2012). A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNIFICATION ACCOUNT OF EXPLANATION. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, 7(20), 91-112. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/207839/en

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AZAD HODA. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNIFICATION ACCOUNT OF EXPLANATION. PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS[Internet]. 2012;7(20):91-112. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/207839/en

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HODA AZAD, “A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNIFICATION ACCOUNT OF EXPLANATION,” PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, vol. 7, no. 20, pp. 91–112, 2012, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/207839/en

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