What Good is an Explanation

By P. Lipton. 2001

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, History and Philosophy of Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ce656063c4e767ed4a02eaedd1754903fa8d6a14

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Dani Ben-Zvi
2. Andy Clark
3. Einat Gil

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Dani Ben-Zvi
2. Mark O. Riedl
3. Andy Clark
4. Einat Gil
5. Upol Ehsan

Citations in the corpus

• QED: A Framework and Dataset for Explanations in Question Answering (2020, background): “It is an open question as to what constitutes a good explanation (Lipton, 2001).”
• How to Knit Your Own Markov Blanket (2017, background): “(Lipton 2001, pp. 44–5) But in the case at hand, the very existence of a whole living system (a plant or an animal) provides evidence for itself considered as a surprisal-minimizing model.”
• Explanations and Context in the Emergence of Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning (2011, background): “Lipton (2004b ), a philosopher of science, contended that people naturally tend to ask why and to explain their wonderments.”
• Automated rationale generation: a technique for explainable AI and its effects on human perceptions (2019, background): “The philosophical and linguistic discourse around the notion of explanations [26, 31] is beyond the scope of this paper.”