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Mechanistic Explanation:Its Scope and Limits
causation mechanism modularity explanation in biology
2016/6/15
This paper, part of an Aristotelian Society (2013) symposium with John Dupre, explores the question of whether all or most explanations in biology are, or ideally should be, ‘mechanistic’. I begin by ...
Reassessing Woodward's account of explanation:regularities,counterfactuals,and non-causal explanations
Explanation Woodward non-causal scaling-laws
2016/6/15
We reassess Woodward’s counterfactual account of explanation in relation to regularity explananda. Woodward (2005) presents an account of causal explanation. We argue, by using an explanation of Kleib...
Diagrams as Locality Aids for Explanation and Model Construction in Cell Biology
cell biology diagram explanation locality aid model construction
2016/5/30
Using as case studies two early diagrams that represent mechanisms of the cell division cycle, we aim to extend prior philosophical analyses of the roles of diagrams in scientific reasoning, and speci...
Causal explanation beyond the gene: manipulation and causality in epigenetics
causation explanation intervention epigenetics methodology observational studies causalidad explicación intervención epigenética metodología estudios observacionales
2016/5/27
This paper deals with the interrelationship between causal explanation and methodology in a relatively young discipline in biology: epigenetics. Based on cases from molecular and ecological epigenetic...
Reconsidering Explanation:Lessons from Nanosynthesis
chemistry nano explanation synthesis scales
2016/5/27
Nanosynthesis forces a reevaluation of received views on scientific explanation. I discuss the synthesis of anisotropic metal nanoparticles, a typical nanosynthesis research program, in order to demon...
The Ethical Mirage:A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are
Forecasting and Prediction Ethics Behavior Cognition and Thinking Perception Prejudice and Bias
2015/4/21
This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions: Peop...
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims
biology explanation integration mechanisms pluralism reduction
2011/9/8
This essay analyzes and develops recent views about explanation in biology. Philosophers of biology have parted with the received deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation primarily by att...
Exponential wealth distribution in a random market. A rigorous explanation
economic gas-like initial wealth wealth distribution
2011/3/31
In simulations of some economic gas-like models, the asymptotic regime shows an exponential wealth distribution, independently of the initial wealth distribution given to the system. The appearance of...
Arbitrage hedging strategy and one more explanation of the volatility smile
step-like contrast structure semi-linear parabolic equation arbitrage option hedging strategy volatility smile
2011/3/23
We present an explicit hedging strategy, which enables to prove arbitrageness of market incorporating at least two assets depending on the same random factor. The implied Black-Scholes volatility, com...
Intensive natural distribution as Bernoulli success ratio extension to continuous: enhanced Gaussian, continuous Poisson, and phenomena explanation
Intensive natural distribution as Bernoulli success ratio extension continuous Poisson phenomena explanation
2011/3/18
A new distribution called intensive natural distribution is introduced with the intent of merging statistics and empirical data. Based on the probability derived from the Bernoulli distribution, this ...
Deregulation, Downsizing and Outsourcing at Telecom New Zealand and Telstra: Towards an explanation of employment relations strategies in terms of transaction costs economics
Telecom New Zealand Telstra employment relations strategies transaction costs economics
2009/4/21
Telstra and the Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (TCNZ) are examined against the backdrop of deregulation, corporatisation and privatisation of telcommunications companies (TelCos) world-wide. This ...
AN INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION FOR CORRUPTION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE OFFICIALS
INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION CORRUPTION CRIMINAL JUSTICE OFFICIALS
2008/12/4
Even a very limited sampling of headlines from news magazines
over the last several years about instances of corruption by police,
prosecutors, andjudges illustrates the magnitude of corruption amon...
THE PATTERN OF ECONOMIC POLICIES IN LDCS：A PUBLIC CHOICE EXPLANATION
ECONOMIC POLICIES LDCS PUBLIC CHOICE EXPLANATION
2008/11/25
THE PATTERN OF ECONOMIC POLICIES IN LDCS：A PUBLIC CHOICE EXPLANATION。
Bureaupreneurs in China: we did it our way A comparative study of the explanation of the economic successes of townvillage-enterprises in China
Bureaupreneurs in China A comparative study explanation of the economic successes townvillage-enterprises in China
2014/6/25
This article explores the different and sometimes conflicting explanations of the success of the collective enterprises (town-village-enterprise) in China during the first phase of transition (1979-19...
COMPETITION IN THE UK GAS INDUSTRY An explanation of the events occurred at St Fergus and Bacton in Summer and Autumn 1998
UK GAS INDUSTRY St Fergus and Bacton Summer and Autumn
2014/6/27
In Summer and Autumn 1998 a series of singular events occurred at the two main gas terminals on the UK mainland. At St Fergus, in Scotland, shippers wanted to input more gas than what was physically p...