Rethinking Explanation

Contributors, Acknowledgements, Preface Part 1: Theory of Explanation, Bengt Hansson Explanations are about concepts and concept formation, Henrik Hållsten, What to ask of an explanation-theory; Petri Ylikoski, The Idea of Contrastive Explanandum; Jan Faye, The Pragmatic-Rhetorical Theory of Explanation; Olav Gjelsvik, Causal explanation provides knowledge why; Stathis Psillos, Causal Explanation and manipulation; Erik Weber and Jeroen Van Bouwel, Assessing the Explanatory Power of Causal Explanations; Rebecca Schweder, Some Notes on Unificationism and Probabilistic Explanation Part 2: Issues in Explanation Alexander Bird, Selection and Explanation; Johannes Persson, IBE and EBI: on explanation before inference; Jaakko Kuorikoski, Explaining with Equilibria; Annika Wallin, Explanation and environment: the case of psychology; Mika Kiikeri and Tomi Kokkonen, Biological Notions of Innateness and Explanation of Language Acquisition; Robin Stenwall, Aspect kinds Index