Explanation and understanding.

291 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Citations in the corpus

Background shifts affect explanatory style: how a pragmatic theory of explanation accounts for background effects in the generation of explanations (2010, unknown): “Although there are different proposals as to how people come to appreciate the presence of causal relations (see Shanks et al. 1996, for one overview), there is consensus that cause is often invoked during explanation (Keil 2006; Lombrozo 2006).”
Explanations in the wild. (2021, unknown): “However, our conclusions about these content features will not extend to other kinds of explanation such as mathematical explanation, where causal relations do not obviously apply (Keil, 2006), and where different theoretic virtues may be valued (Inglis & Aberdein, 2015).”
Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations (2009, unknown): “Explanations gain cognitive support and psychological value as they appear to explain more observations with fewer causes (Keil, 2006; Preston & Epley, 2005), especially those that explain diverse effects that are branched far apart on a causal tree (Kim & Keil, 2003).”
Explanations and Teleology in Chemistry Education (2007, unknown): “Humans seem to be driven to acquire and provide explanations for many purposes, which makes explanations ubiquitous and diverse in nature (Keil, 2006).”