That is, all the patterns may share a common core pattern, which is what we need for explanation. 4. XIII. After a brief summary of the technical details of Kitcher’s view, I show that such a unification is unrealizable on the model. Oct 6: Kitcher, explanation as unification. Philosophy of Science 48: 507-531. Kitcher's account aims to identify cases of explanatory unification, as opposed to all possible cases of unification. . He thinks this problem was caused by accidental and irrelevant generalization. Selection and the Extent of Explanatory Unification. This aspect of Kitcher’s account seems to get close to the practice of unification … 10 0 obj[11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R] Summary - Lukes - methodological individualism reconsidered 15. 63, No. 7 0 obj<> Kitcher's account aims to identify cases of explanatory unification, as opposed to all possible cases of unification. First, given that Kitcher proposed his model to provide insight into how scientists (including mathematicians) advance their research, introducing Kitcher’s explanatory unification into �����t��AZaR����`vnSù#:�$S{��#��
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Explanatory Unification Philip Kitcher By: Lane Weir Kitcher's Objective Kitcher's Main Objective "My aim in this essay is to compare what I see as the chief contemporary rivals in the theory of explanation, to understand their affiliations to the covering-law models and their So neurobiology), and Kitcher has not attempted to show how his patterns, or modified versions of one or more of them, might be used to unify the phenomena in these three domains. Summary - Lukes - some problems about rationality 16. K. Karaca - 2012 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (2):287-312. "Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World." 13) Google Scholar Explanatory Unification Philip Kitcher Philosophy of Science, Vol. / Karaca, Koray . Joseph C. Pitt, 167-187. Google Scholar !r@80Q. 3 0 obj<> 1989. 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(Dec., 1981), pp. neurobiology), and Kitcher has not attempted to show how his patterns, or modified versions of one or more of them, might be used to unify the phenomena in these three domains. For Kitcher, ‘explanatory unification’ is the kind of unification that scientific theories should exhibit, if they are to provide a unified and systematic description of natural phenomena. The view that scientific explanation is achieved via unification was formally introduced by Michael Friedman (1974) and modified and extended by Philip Kitcher (1976, 1981, 1989, 1993). Moreover, Kitcher supposes that arguments supplied by science will be used in acts of explanation. Philip Kitcher, “Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World,” Scientific Explanation, ed. (Dec., 1981), pp. Summary - Lewis - laws of nature 14. Kitcher sees explanations as belonging to an "explanatory store", a bank of sorts from which ideal explanations can be derived. Kitcher thinks that scientific explanation consists of a proposition and an act to answer questions. The Causal and Unification Approaches to Explanation Unified—Causally. Summary - Kitcher - explanatory unification 13. 1989. This aspect of Kitcher’s account seems to get close to the practice of unification … 6 0 obj <>stream In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. BibTeX @MISC{Kitcher81scienceexplanatory, author = {Author(s) Philip Kitcher and Philip Kitchert}, title = {Science EXPLANATORY UNIFICATION*}, year = {1981}} 1. Kitcher uses systematization’ of K to call any set of arguments that derives some members of K from other members of K. The criterion for best systematization is the notion of unification, which is achieved by generating a large number of acceptable arguments or conclusion about natural phenomena by using a few, convincing patterns. ), Scientific Explanation. endobj _____. However, we believe that his perspective has certain problems, which have been inherited by more recent approaches to the topic. The appropriate arguments relates to a set of accepted sentences. 2, 01.06.2012, p. 287-312. which collectively provide[s] the best systematization of our beliefs" (ibid., 430). He thinks that explanation should be the set of arguments which best unifies a given phenomenon. The evidence I provide that unification can be ex- endobj 4 0 obj <>stream Some backgroundorientation will be useful before turning to the details of competingmodels. After a brief summary of the technical details of Kitcher's view, I show that such a unification is unrealizable on the model. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Summary - Kitcher - explanatory unification 13. As will become apparent, “scientific explanation” is atopic that raises a number of interrelated issues. A Kitcherian Picture of Science without Causes. 13 0 obj<>>> A schematic sentence here means an expression which obtained by replacing some non-logical expressions in a given sentence with dummy letters. It is thus assum… 507-531. Kitcher’s Explanatory Unification, Kaluza-Klein Theories, and the Normative Aspect of Higher Dimensional Unification in Physics. Summary - Kitcher - explanatory unification 13. 2 Kitcher on Explanatory Unification. The articulation of an overarching account of scientific explanation has long been a central preoccupation for the philosophers of science. ]I[ZQ*7%9mGJ*$T`Pn"f!1eR&\Oha,K%(`;knp@RN"7eP+3=j5_UhXp)U1BN]5n1jEdJ#p1p5+[u5lp,t;T"I+E/1gU'N`dg%`s/Wa4G+59JE\G5~> K. Karaca Kitcher's Explanatory Unification, Kaluza-Klein Theories, and the Normative Aspect of Higher Dimensional Unification in Physics, The British Journal for the Philosophy of … I go on to argue that since the selection mechanism governs selection phe-nomena in each domain, its mechanism schema can be used to yield the desired unification. Philip Kitcher, finding faults with Friedman's account of unification, offers another account of explanatory unification. Philip Kitcher Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World 1. After a brief summary of the technical details of Kitcher’s view, I show that such a unification is unrealizable on the model. endobj Kitcher tries to develop this idea. https://acawiki.org/index.php?title=Explanatory_Unification&oldid=10548. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Oct. 6: Due date for thesis statement (and bibliography) for presentation/paper (see (3) above) Required reading: Kitcher, Philip (1989), "Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World," in Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon (eds. According to Kitcher, explanatory unification is a matter of applying the same “argument pattern” or “pattern of derivation” to derive descriptions of different kinds of explanandum phenomena (Kitcher 1981, 1989). Central to his approach is the idea that science enhances understanding by unifying disparate phe nomena. %���� Nearly forty years later, philosophers rightly continue to appreciate the accomplishments Reprinted in Theories of Explanation, ed. An alternative proposal from structuralism to Kitcher's explanatory pattern Kitcher has satisfactorily explicated unification using his particular approach to scientific explanation. causes suggested by Philip Kitcher in “Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World.” 2. 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