The Pragmatics of Explanation

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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, background): “In addition, several research groups have applied many of the explanation approaches of the earlier expert systems to agent-based systems (Johnson, 1994; Van Lent et al., 2004).”
Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “of such articles ranging from dialogues for pragmatic explanation [175] to definitions based on transfer of understanding [178].”
Why Attention is Not Explanation: Surgical Intervention and Causal Reasoning about Neural Models (2020, background): “• The Pragmatic Theory (Van Fraassen, 1977; Van Fraassen, 1980) contrasts itself with logical theories by characterizing explanation not as generation of a particular logical argument structure, and with transmission theories by not requiring the relay of a causal mark.”
Designs for explaining intelligent agents (2009, background): “Some work on the essential nature of explanation has argued that what constitutes an effective explanation may be substantially dependent on the context in which the explanation request is made (van Fraassen, 1991).”