Functional explaining: a new approach to the philosophy of explanation

By Daniel A. Wilkenfeld. 2014

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Tania Lombrozo
2. Gary Klein
3. Robert R. Hoffman
4. Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Gary Klein
2. Robert R. Hoffman
3. Shane T. Mueller
4. Daniel A. Wilkenfeld
5. William J. Clancey
6. Abigail Emrey
7. Tania Lombrozo
8. Dillon Plunkett

In Philosophy

1. Tania Lombrozo
2. Robert R. Hoffman
3. Gary Klein
4. Shane T. Mueller
5. Daniel A. Wilkenfeld
6. William J. Clancey
7. Abigail Emrey
8. Dillon Plunkett

Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “…and Craver, 2000; Marr and Poggio, 1976; Maxwell, 1974; Maze, 1954; Meissner, 1960; Rozeboom, 1956; Rozenblit and Keil, 2002; Scriven, 1958; Simon, 1992; Smith, 2014; Strevens, 2004; Thagard, 1989; Thorpe, 1974; Van Der Linden, Leiserowitz, Rosenthal, and Maibach, 2017; Wilkenfeld, 2014, 2016)”
• Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) Versus Explaining for the Best Inference (EBI) (2015, background): “Similarly, Wilkenfeld (2014) argues that explanations are best characterized by their connections to explaining acts, which are in turn best characterized by their propensity to produce understanding.”
• What Do We Want From Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)? - A Stakeholder Perspective on XAI and a Conceptual Model Guiding Interdisciplinary XAI Research (2021, background): “Providing explanatory information of a given phenomenon is the default procedure to facilitate its understanding [147, 172, 173].”
• The explanatory effect of a label: Explanations with named categories are more satisfying. (2017, background): “In addition to causal accounts, pragmatic accounts that ground explanation in the sort of understanding they produce (e.g., Achinstein, 1983; Wilkenfeld, 2014) would predict that the way an explanation is phrased — and in particular whether it invokes a name — might affect how it is understood and h”
• Depth and deference: When and why we attribute understanding (2016, background): “On the extreme end, some (Scriven 1962; Wilkenfeld 2014) have even argued that it is constitutive of being an explanation that something play the right role in generating understanding.”