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- 04:50, 3 June 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,016) . . What is a mechanism? thinking about mechanisms across the sciences (current)
- 05:54, 2 June 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . N What is a mechanism? thinking about mechanisms across the sciences (Created page with "{{Summary |title=What is a mechanism? thinking about mechanisms across the sciences |authors=Illari PM, Williamson J |journal=Eur J Philos Sci 2:119–135 |pub_date=2012 }}")
- 02:53, 29 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,644) . . Modeling mechanisms (current)
- 02:31, 29 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+234) . . N Modeling mechanisms (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Modeling mechanisms |authors=Stuart Glennan |journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and...")
- 02:13, 29 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,308) . . Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists (current)
- 02:03, 29 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+166) . . N Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists |authors=Smith, Michael |journal=Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18: 167-192. |pub_date=2011 }}")
- 01:54, 29 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,611) . . Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation (current)
- 23:44, 28 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+142) . . N Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation |authors=Stuart Glennan |journal=Erkenntnis 72(2): 251-266. |pub_date=2010 }}")
- 23:37, 17 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,382) . . Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality (current)
- 22:34, 17 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+148) . . N Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality |authors=Angela Potochnik |journal=Philosophy of Science 2007 74:5 |pub_date=2007 }}")
- 13:50, 15 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,845) . . Theoretical Archaeology: a Reactionary View (current)
- 05:28, 15 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+217) . . N Theoretical Archaeology: a Reactionary View (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Theoretical Archaeology: a Reactionary View |authors=Ian Hodder |journal=In Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, edited by I. Hodder, pp. 1-16. Cambridge Univ...")
- 11:49, 11 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,647) . . Functionalism Defended (current)
- 05:08, 11 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . N Functionalism Defended (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Functionalism Defended |authors=Kincaid, Harold |journal=In Philosophical foundations of the social sciences: analyzing controversies in social research, Camb...")
- 15:07, 8 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+4,634) . . Nference to the best explanation: a common and effective form of archaeological reasoning (current)
- 14:50, 8 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+393) . . N Nference to the best explanation: a common and effective form of archaeological reasoning (Created page with "{{Summary |title=nference to the best explanation: a common and effective form of archaeological reasoning |authors=Fogelin, L. |summary=Fogelin |relevance=Reference Hane...")
- 14:46, 8 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,930) . . N Archaeological Inference and Inductive Confirmation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Archaeological Inference and Inductive Confirmation |authors=Smith, B. D. |summary=In this article, Smith discusses how the paradigm shift at the time of the...") (current)
- 23:37, 5 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,143) . . Inference to the Best Explanation (current)
- 23:20, 5 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . N Inference to the Best Explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Inference to the Best Explanation |authors=Lipton, P. |journal=W.H. Newton-Smith (ed) A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell) 184-193. |pub_date...")
- 16:21, 4 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,155) . . Van Fraassen's critique of inference to the best explanation (current)
- 05:56, 4 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+212) . . N Van Fraassen's critique of inference to the best explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Van Fraassen's critique of inference to the best explanation |authors=Okasha, S. |journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 31(4), 691-710...")
- 05:56, 1 May 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,672) . . N Deductive-Nomological vs. Causal-Mechanical Explanation: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Anthropological Explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Deductive-Nomological vs. Causal-Mechanical Explanation: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Anthropological Explanation |authors=Kuznar, Lawrence A. and Ken...") (current)
- 01:33, 27 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,598) . . N Why Unification Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient for Explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Why Unification Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient for Explanation |authors=Victor Gijsbers |summary=Gijsbers argues that Kitcher's unification theory, which...") (current)
- 16:01, 24 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,504) . . N Cience, Social Science, and Common Sense: the Agonizing Dilemma of Modern Archaeology (Created page with "{{Summary |title=cience, Social Science, and Common Sense: the Agonizing Dilemma of Modern Archaeology |authors=Dunnell, R. |summary=Dunnell writes this as a "state of the di...") (current)
- 04:50, 20 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,508) . . N Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World |authors=Kitcher, Philip |summary=This chapter in an edited volume serves to introduce previous...") (current)
- 07:54, 17 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,648) . . Settlement and economy in a changing prehistoric lowland landscape: an East Yorkshire (UK) case study (current)
- 07:19, 17 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+610) . . N Settlement and economy in a changing prehistoric lowland landscape: an East Yorkshire (UK) case study (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Settlement and economy in a changing prehistoric lowland landscape: an East Yorkshire (UK) case study |authors=Halkon, Peter, and Jim Innes |summary=This arti...")
- 07:19, 13 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,690) . . N The Scientific Image (Created page with "{{Summary |title=The Scientific Image |authors=Van Fraassen, B. C. |url=http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1470783.files/van%20Fraassen_Scientific%20Image.pdf |summar...") (current)
- 06:44, 13 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,070) . . N The pragmatic theory of explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=The pragmatic theory of explanation |authors=Van Fraassen, B. C. |summary=Van Frassen believes that explanations are not proposition or arguments, but is an a...") (current)
- 01:25, 7 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+2,745) . . N The nature of archaeological explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=The nature of archaeological explanation |authors=Fritz, J. and F. Plog |summary=All archaeologists use laws in their work. One measure of what the science h...") (current)
- 01:02, 7 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,913) . . N "Science, Theory, and Reality in the "New Archaeology" (Created page with "{{Summary |title="Science, Theory, and Reality in the "New Archaeology" |authors=D. T. Bayard |summary=The New Archaeology, which believes that archaeology should be anthropol...") (current)
- 00:38, 7 April 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+3,388) . . N Causation as Explanation (Created page with "{{Summary |title=Causation as Explanation |authors=Michael Scriven |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2214338 |summary=Like Salmon (1997), Scriven believes that causation is ind...") (current)