2 Kitcher on Explanatory Unification. For example, the structure of general argument pattern Kitcher proposes is similar to the model we use for archaeology. In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. Explanatory Unification and Scientific Understanding. 12 0 obj<>>> H�|T�n�@}�W�cAt�w���(7�E/�,���űq4|=�k;nS‹���sf��Q���E���Ih�U��b[�l ��{�L��` Philosophy of Science, Vol. A schematic sentence here means an expression which obtained by replacing some non-logical expressions in a given sentence with dummy letters. Google Scholar 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). 4. endobj K. Karaca - 2012 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (2):287-312. 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). https://acawiki.org/index.php?title=Explanatory_Unification&oldid=10548. 507-531. In summary, the following statement by Kitcher illustrates very clearly his view of explanatory unification [3]: Kitcher’s Views on Unification Kitcher claims that behind the official view of the logical positivists, which states that explanation aims at expectability, there is also an unofficial view which regards explanation essentially as unification (Kitcher, 1981: 508). �����t��AZaR����`vnSù#:�$S{��#�� (��M�� �� "��^1���(q������Lz��$Dck�J��D�)���]�*7eu��g��, g)62o)5Yp=D&Nf(2VjRVNeY[e^gR,#h8:dUa&3'e,4hJ+Js6>Anlj>S?aC8[qJ#*7GN]fc"#-)F/nG/5>RnD6u0C5U`DEif"'GV%`IN?A3=Cu_7IrVnYpj:]?\3(FP:=G]Z[;G1$X"X(K_-)ehlahDLa"8g[f"*-sWd1-lO=!s0,Af89s`_-8LfLi/8Gl5%C`sB4ZPFiAGnbS>8!Zib"_fD_Z?F>Bi`$pYW[;=$.kYTo/3mXkCFD+F$7L?s'E=?iei!O1b*D7KMW>D@nI`kC;"kCQd,[%o@O&Mn^_XhaUEN7q(/@\A&=msV;Ya8Nor@O7EZ31Z?5XSk2>_04'(Z^@pGiD]='r,81MW@UgCC-4#/WmCE!=j"40YC[jZ)7oF_dtr%@.=uLb/6#I/.%In1;ELJWB0tCU1=Y&D. The articulation of an overarching account of scientific explanation has long been a central preoccupation for the philosophers of science. 2, 01.06.2012, p. 287-312. _____. In addition, the idea of unification justifies that archaeology can use theories from other disciplines because of sharing of core pattern. Kitcher, Phillip (1989) ‘Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World’, in Phillip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon (eds) Scientific Explanation: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. Summary - Kitcher - explanatory unification 13. 19 In contrast to Friedman, who is interested in the reduction of the number of independent laws, Kitcher focuses on the idea of reducing the number of independent argument patterns. It is thus assum… ]I[ZQ*7%9mGJ*$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~> Summary - Lewis - laws of nature 14. Summary - Kitcher - explanatory unification 13. 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. 4 0 obj <>stream domains. 1989. endobj nations, the explanatory store . Explanatory Unification Philip Kitcher Philosophy of Science, Vol. . causes suggested by Philip Kitcher in “Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World.” 2. endobj I think some ideas are interesting and relevant to archaeology. Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world @inproceedings{Kitcher1989ExplanatoryUA, title={Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world}, author={P. Kitcher}, year={1989} } Kitcher's Explanatory Unification, Kaluza-Klein Theories, and the Normative Aspect of Higher Dimensional Unification in Physics. Google Scholar (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. Summary - Lukes - some problems about rationality 16. Philosophy of Science 48: 507-531. 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Despite the genuine interest and power of the theory, I argue here that the theory suffers from a fatal deficiency: It is intrinsically unable to account for the asymmetric structure of explanation, and thus ultimately falls prey to a problem similar to the one which beset Hempel's D-N model. unification, rather than to explanation [1], his idea is rele-vant to mathematics education, for two reasons. Philip Kitcher, finding faults with Friedman's account of unification, offers another account of explanatory unification. 6 0 obj <>stream 13 0 obj<>>> 4 (RSS). Kitcher’s Explanatory Unification, Kaluza-Klein Theories, and the Normative Aspect of Higher Dimensional Unification in Physics. endstream 7 0 obj<> 16 0 obj <>stream In Scientific explanation, edited by P. Kitcher and W. 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