Social structural explanation

Social Explanation and Popper

Sociological Explanation of Social Consensus in Shahrekord

Introduction: Considering the impact of social solidarity on the development of societies and the fact that solidarity is the basis of any kind of planning and policy in society, recognizing it can be a great help for development. On the other hand, the main goal of all political systems is to try to unite social groups, which is achieved in the shadow of social solidarity. Method: The researc...

Sociological Explanation of Social Consensus in Shahrekord

Introduction: Considering the impact of social solidarity on the development of societies and the fact that solidarity is the basis of any kind of planning and policy in society, recognizing it can be a great help for development. On the other hand, the main goal of all political systems is to try to unite social groups, which is achieved in the shadow of social solidarity. Method: The researc...

Social Explanation and Computational Simulation

I explore a type of computational social simulation known as artificial societies. Artificial society simulations are dynamic models of real-world social phenomena. I explore the role that these simulations play in social explanation, by situating these simulations within contemporary philosophical work on explanation and on models. Many contemporary philosophers have argued that models provide...

A Structural Theory of Explanation-Based Learning

The impact of Explanation-Based Learning (EBL) on problem-solving eciency varies greatly from one problem space to another. In fact, seemingly minute modications to problem space encoding can drastically alter EBL's impact. For example, while prodigy/ebl (a state-of-the-art EBL system) signicantly speeds up the prodigy problem solver in the Blocksworld, prodigy/ebl actually slows prodigy down i...