Functional explanation and the function of explanation.

By Tania Lombrozo, Susan Carey. 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology, Philosophy

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Can language models learn from explanations in context? (2022, background): “, 1992)— explanations highlight task principles that allow us to generalize broadly (Lombrozo and Carey, 2006; Lombrozo, 2006).”
Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “…1987; Keil, 2006; Keil, Rozenblit, and Mills, 2004; Koehler, 1991; Kuhn, 2001; Leddo, Abelson, and Gross, 1984; Lombrozo, 2006, 2009a, 2011, 2016; Lombrozo and Carey, 2006; Lombrozo and Gwynne, 2014a; Lombrozo, Sloman, Strevens, Trout, and Skolnick Weisberg, 2008; Malle, 1999,2004, 2011; Manicas…”
Metrics for Explainable AI: Challenges and Prospects (2018, background): “Instances of explanation are often expressions of what will happen in the future (Koehler, 1991; Lombrozo and Carey, 2006; Mitchell, Russo & Pennington, 1989).”
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations (2008, background): “However, previous research has shown that people have difficulty reasoning about explanations (for reviews, see Keil, 2006; Lombrozo, 2006).”
Explanations in the wild. (2021, unknown): “2023. of interest (Colombo et al., 2017; Hopkins et al., 2016; Lombrozo & Carey, 2006); another is to analyze participants’ explanations of artificial scenarios crafted by experimenters for similar purposes (Lombrozo & Gwynne, 2014).”
Finding new facts; thinking new thoughts. (2012, unknown): “…an appeal to plausible causal, mechanistic relations; Bonawitz & Lombrozo, in press; Hempel & Oppenheim, 1948; Keil & Wilson, 2000; Keleman, 1999; Kitcher, 1989; Legare, Gelman, & Wellman, 2010; Lombrozo, 2006, 2007, 2012; Lombrozo & Carey, 2006; Salmon, 1984; Strevens, 2004; Woodward, 2009).”
Contrastive Constraints Guide Explanation-Based Category Learning (2017, background): “Work examining the role of explanation in learning has focused on the mechanisms involved in developing the relevant knowledge (Chi, 2000) and how the knowledge generated via explanation may provide a foundation for future generalizations (Lombrozo, 2011; Lombrozo & Carey, 2006).”
Recognizing mechanistic reasoning in student scientific inquiry: A framework for discourse analysis developed from philosophy of science (2008, background): “Extensive research has examined the psychology and cognition associated with a developing understanding of explanation (e.g., Callanan & Oakes, 1992; Keil & Wilson, 2000; Lombrozo & Carey, 2006 ).”
Trends and Trajectories for Explainable, Accountable and Intelligible Systems: An HCI Research Agenda (2018, background): “Lombrozo [122, 123, 124] explores the cognitive aspects of”
Preliminary Evolutionary Explanations: A Basic Framework for Conceptual Change and Explanatory Coherence in Evolution (2009, background): “It seems that to teach effectively about evolution, particularly about the origin of biological traits, a distinction is important to be made between two types of etiologies: design etiologies and consequence etiologies ( Lombrozo and Carey 2006 ).”
Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants. (2008, background): “Humans are obsessed with goals: they tend to prefer teleological explanations for events ( Lombrozo & Carey, 2006 ), natural phenomena (Keil, 1995), properties of objects (Kelemen, 1999), and especially actions (Csibra & Gergely, 2007).”
The role of explanation in discovery and generalization: evidence from category learning (2010, background): “Although there is no consensus, we focus on pattern subsumption theories, which have been advocated in past research on explanation within psychology (Lombrozo & Carey, 2006; Wellman & Liu, 2007).”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “In fact, Lombrozo and Carey, 2006Carey find evidence that functional explanations are only accepted when the function invoked in the explanation played a causal role in bringing about what is being explained (or more precisely, when the function is a token of a type that played a causal role in…”
Tell me why! - Explanations support learning of relational and causal structure (2021, background): “…are fundamentally different from unsupervised losses—unsupervised objectives are task-independent by deﬁnition, while explanations selectively emphasize the causally relevant features of a situation, and the relationship to general task principles (Lombrozo and Carey, 2006; Lombrozo, 2006).”
Students’ intuitive explanations of the causes of homologies and adaptations (2008, background): “Teleological explanations can be applied to intentional processes which exhibit what has been called a design etiology, which satisfy the requirement of being preceded by an intention to have a function or achieve a goal ( Lombrozo and Carey 2006 ).”