Alternative Explanation of the Results

Explanation: a mechanist alternative.

Explanations in the life sciences frequently involve presenting a model of the mechanism taken to be responsible for a given phenomenon. Such explanations depart in numerous ways from nomological explanations commonly presented in philosophy of science. This paper focuses on three sorts of differences. First, scientists who develop mechanistic explanations are not limited to linguistic represen...

Explanation without Laws : The Mechanist Alternative p . 1 Explanation : The Mechanist Alternative

Explanations in the life sciences frequently involve presenting a model of the mechanism taken to be responsible for a given phenomenon. Such explanations depart in numerous ways from nomological explanations commonly presented in philosophy of science. This paper focuses on three sorts of differences. First, investigators are not limited to linguistic representations and logical inference in p...

An Alternative Explanation of the Price Puzzle

This paper proposes a simple explanation for the frequent appearance of a price puzzle in VARs designed for monetary policy analysis. It suggests that the best method of solving the puzzle implies a close connection between theory and empirics rather than the introduction of a commodity price. It proves that the omission of a measure of output gap (or potential output) spuriously produces a pri...

Alternative explanation of the garnet occurrence in a meteorite.

An Alternative Explanation for Premack & Premack

When interpreting the results of experiments that test the cognitive abilities of infants, we must be careful not to attribute to them the cognitive abilities of adults. By merely mapping adult capabilities onto infants, we may provide explanations that, while in line with the understanding of those abilities in adults, do not properly describe the actual cognitive processes that are taking pla...