The phrase "approach to explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a method or perspective on how to explain something, often in academic or analytical contexts.
Example: "The scientist's approach to explanation was thorough, considering both empirical evidence and theoretical frameworks."
Alternatives: "method of explanation" or "perspective on explanation".
3. *"An Approach to Explanation, " in R. J. Butler, ed., Analytical Philosophy, vol. 2 (Basil Blackwell, 1965), pp. 72-105.
Within the framework of logical empiricism, and specifically within Hempel's approach to explanation, there was a clear answer.
Michael Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation.
This suggestion fits naturally with the unificationist approach to explanation but encounters similar difficulties in articulating the idea of a "best systematization".
By the early 1970s, Hempel's approach to explanation (known as the covering-law model) seemed to be in trouble on a number of fronts, leading philosophers to canvass alternative treatments.
In previous papers by the use of the architecture generating property of the optimal linear quadratic tracking theory those problems that give the PI, PD and PID controllers had been presented, thus avoiding heuristics and giving a systematic approach to explanation for their excellent performance.
I view machine learning as any data-driven approach to explanations, classifications, and predictions that uses automation to construct a model.
van Fraassen (1980), especially Chapter Six and Achinstein (1983) are classic statements of pragmatic approaches to explanation.
Taken in itself the observation just described seem completely uncontroversial and not in conflict with approaches to explanation that are usually viewed as paradigmatically traditional.
However, it is worthwhile (and, provides additional insight into both approaches), to consider the possibility that some of the ideas associated with each might be combined, thus enlarging the space of possible approaches to explanation.
Although there is a growing literature in this area, the most prominent philosophical advocates of pragmatic approaches to explanation have so far tended not to make use of it.
