Explanatory generalizations, part II: Plumbing explanatory depth

By Christopher R. Hitchcock, James F. Woodward. 2003

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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): “…2017); Byrne and McEleney (2000); Kahneman and Varey (1990); Halpern and Pearl (2005a,b), Hilton, McClure and Slugoski (2005); Hitchcock (2003); Hitchcock and Woodward (2003); Hoffman, et al., (2014); Khemlani and Johnson-Laird (2010); Kim, Khanna, and Koyejo (2016); Lipton, (1990); Mandel…”
• Dissecting explanatory power (2010, background): “1 Important exceptions are Miller (1987), Morton (2002), and Hitchcock and Woodward (2003).”
• Moving Beyond Causes: Optimality Models and Scientific Explanation (2015, background): “…to scientific explanation claims that for a model to provide an explanation it must accurately represent causes of the explanandum (Craver 2006; Hitchcock and Woodward 2003; Kaplan and Craver 2011; Lewis 1986; Railton 1981; Salmon 1984; Strevens 2004, 2009; Woodward 2003).2 Indeed, most…”