What is an “Explanation” of Behavior?

By Herbert A. Simon. 1992

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, neutral): “y, 1987; Lulia Nastasia and Rakow, 2010; Machamer, Darden, 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, ”
The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. (2001, background): “Building on Bastick (1982), Bruner (1960), Simon (1992), and others, moral intuition can be defined as the sudden appearance in consciousness of a moral judgment, including an affective valence (good-bad, like-dislike), without any conscious awareness of having gone through steps of searching,…”
Heuristic decision making. (2011, unknown): “As Simon (1992) noted, if that were the case, one would only need to study the environment to predict behavior; the study of heuristics would be obsolete.”
Addiction as a complex social process: An action theoretical perspective (2008, background): “It builds on and yet sits uniquely within the wider class of philosophical (e.g., Taylor 1964; Anscombe 2000) and social scientific action theories (e.g., Parsons 1949; Habermas 1984; Ewart 1991).”
Intuition in Management Research: A Historical Review (2012, unknown): “For Simon intuition is " nothing more and nothing less than recognition " (Simon, 1992, p.155), " analyses frozen into habit and the capacity for rapid response through recognition " (Simon, 1987, p.63), and managers' intuitive skills depend on the same kinds of mechanisms as those of chess masters…”
Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (2002, background): “When experienced gourmet cooks say they “just use experience and intuition” in mixing ingredients, they are stating “the theory of experiment performance that has emerged in recent years,” noted Simon (1992) .”
Understanding intuition: The case for two forms of intuition (2012, background): “Simon (e.g. March and Simon, 1993; Simon, 1983, 1992) usually explained intuition as experts recognizing patterns relevant to their experience.”
Memory for goals: an activation-based model (2002, background): “Since then, our understanding of higher-level cognition has advanced (Simon, 1992) and the focus has increasingly turned to the influence of lower-level cognitive constraints (e.g., Byrne & Anderson, 2001; Meyer & Kieras, 1997).”
Exploring Intuition and its Role in Managerial Decision Making (2007, background): “…engaging in competition), contends that experts possess highly sophisticated, nonconscious cognitive structures that permit rapid and accurate responses to highly demanding situations (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986; Klein, 1998, 2003; Prietula & Simon, 1989; Simon, 1987, 1992, 1996; Simon & Chase, 1973).”