Durkheim's variable-based strategy conceives explanations from comparing and "testing propositions about general patterns of relationships among abstract variables" (Ragin and Zaret 1983, p. 740).
The importance of the relationship between sociocultural factors with illness models has already been highlighted [ 46]: marginalized groups may be more likely to reject white, middle-class professionally conceived psychiatric explanations.
Given that many philosophers of biology and neuroscience conceive of explanation as the description of mechanisms, accounts of explanatory reduction can rely on the notion of a mechanistic explanation (e.g., Delehanty 2005).
Book VI is his valiant attempt to formulate a logic of the human sciences including history, psychology, and sociology based on causal explanation conceived in Humean terms, a formulation that has lately come in for radical criticism.
Primitivism becomes a more substantive thesis if it is linked to an account of the nature of psychological explanation, or perhaps of psychological explanation as conceived in the neo-nativist tradition.
5) argues such a response to Hempel would require us to implausibly conceive of reason explanations as being very different from ordinary causal explanations.
Interestingly, the example of the reduction of headaches as described by Nagel (see above, Section 1) seems to suggest that he conceives of reductive explanation as mechanistic explanation.
Attachment theory, as first conceived, gave an environmental explanation for this variation, regarding caregivers' sensitive responsiveness to infant signals as the crucial factor for the development of optimal, secure attachment.
But I argue that not everybody conceives these two explanations as in competition.
A complete history was not yet conceived, so Nomura left the explanation for Squall's scar to Nojima.
