Qualitative Reasoning is often seen as a powerful basis for generating explanations, because the behaviour of interest is explicitly modelled in terms of relevant components, processes, causality relations, quantity spaces, assumptions, states and transitions, while neglecting unnecessary details like quantitative values. However, the link between qualitative reasoning and explanation is often ...

Much research (e.g., Keil, 1989; Murphy & Medin, 1985; Rips, 1989) has emphasized the critical role that domain knowledge plays in categorization judgments. Recent instantiations of this view (e.g., Ahn, et al., 2000; Rehder & Hastie, 2001) have focused on characterizing how causal knowledge supports categorization decisions. We suggest that a more satisfactory account of categorization can be ...

The conventional Lie group approach is extended successfully to give out the group explanation to the new conditional similarity reductions obtained by modifying the Clarkson and Kruskal's (CK's) direct method for the (2+1)-dimensional Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation.

Social problems such as racism, sexism, and inequality are often cited structural rather than individual in nature. What does it mean to invoke a social explanation, how do explanations relate individualistic ones? This article explores recent philosophical debates concerning the nature usages of explanation. I distinguish between two central kinds explanation: those that autonomous from psycho...