Thus, suffice it to say that some philosophers, like Craver, reject a reductionist interpretation of mechanistic explanation (Craver 2007), whereas others seem to suggest that a conservative form of reductionism may be compatible with mechanistic explanation (Bechtel 2007 and, especially, Schaffner 2006).
Findings support that the exploration of local perceptions in addition to the quantitative spatial assessment of land cover dynamics enhances the reliability of processes of interpretation and explanation of landscape change and improves the understanding of hidden dynamics and complex driving forces.
Gardner writes that "Mayr gave a firmly historical interpretation of ultimate explanations" (but then takes issue with this, and recasts ultimate causation as "adaptive rationale").
Consistent with our research aims, we employed interpretive methods of enquiry, which allows description, interpretation and explanation of a phenomenon rather than estimation of its prevalence.
This conception of psychiatry is fully biological but not committed to a particular metaphysical interpretation of what biological explanation must look like.
Although often referred to as a dream, the concept behind Imaginos is what Pearlman described as "an interpretation of history – an explanation for the onset of World War I, or a revelation of the occult origins of it", which he crafted on elements of mythology, sociology, alchemy, science and occultism.
The shift to post-Mendelian genomics will require different ways of thinking about the validation, interpretation and explanation of genomic studies, especially with respect to their application to clinical practice.
The development of a theoretical framework for the establishment of causation in the absence of experimental evidence represents an important conceptual development in the interpretation and explanation of biological phenomena.
The authors discuss the use of a generalized damping concept for modeling the dynamic behavior of linear systems and show how this concept allows for a clearer interpretation and explanation of the behavior displayed by the common viscous and hysteretic models.
And in the public world, both John Lanchester's Whoops! and Fintan O'Toole's Enough Is Enough (Faber) manage to explain the financial crisis with wit and passion; but more than anything else, both writers offer pure clarity in their interpretation and explanation of how we got here.
I am generally enthusiastic about this paper, but more work is required to be convinced by the authors' main interpretation and explanation of their results.
