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Researcher

Raoul Gervais

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

16 Results

2016

Difference making, explanatory relevance, and mechanistic models

Dingmar van EckRaoul Gervais

A1 Journal Article in THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA

2015

Mechanistic and non-mechanistic varieties of dynamical models in cognitive science : explanatory power, understanding, and the 'mere description' worry

A1 Journal Article in SYNTHESE

The 'green cheese' and 'red herring' problems reconsidered: epistemological versus methodological tasks for philosophers of science

Erik WeberRaoul GervaisJeroen Van Bouwel

A1 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

2014

A framework for inter-level explanations: outlines for a new explanatory pluralism

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Explaining capacities : assessing the explanatory power of models in the cognitive sciences

Bookchapter in Logic, reasoning, and rationality

2013

Explanation in the cognitive sciences and biology: mechanisms, laws, and their explanatory virtues

Raoul GervaisErik WeberJeroen Van Bouwel

Inferential explanations in biology

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Non-cognitive values and objectivity in scientific explanation: the case of the Movius line

A2 Journal Article in PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE

Plausibility versus richness in mechanistic models

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY

The status of functional explanation in psychology: reduction and mechanistic explanation

Raoul GervaisHuib Looren de Jong

A1 Journal Article in THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY

2012

Op het snijvlak van cognitie, wetenschap en filosofie: intertheoretische relaties in de twintigste eeuw

A2 Journal Article in ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE

Pragmatic approaches to explanation applied to the cognitive sciences: two types of explanation-seeking questions compared

2011

Causality and Explanation in the Sciences, 19-21 September

Raoul GervaisLaszlo Kosolosky

The covering law model applied to dynamical cognitive science: a comment on Joel Walmsley

Raoul GervaisErik Weber

A1 Journal Article in MINDS AND MACHINES

2010

Logic, reasoning and rationality, 20-22 September

Mathieu BeirlaenTjerk GauderisRaoul GervaisLaszlo Kosolosky