Recently, Piccinini and Craver have stated three theses concerning the relations between functional analysis and mechanistic explanation in cognitive sciences: No Distinctness: functional analysis and mechanistic explanation ...

Constructing explanations of scientific concepts is one of the most frequent strategies used in the science classroom and is a high-leverage teaching practice. This study analysed the explanations provided by student ...

Constructing explanations of scientific phenomena is a high-leverage practice that promotes student understanding. In the context of this study, we acknowledge that children are used to receiving explanations from teachers. ...

Recently, many philosophers have been inclined to ascribe mentality to animals (including some insects) on the main grounds that they possess certain complex computational abilities. In this paper I contend that this ...

Upper elementary students face conceptual and linguistic challenges when writing in science. One way to scaffold science writing is the explicit teaching of cross-disciplinary language. Limited research has explored the ...

Studies about the nature of scientific explanations and students' ability to generate them are diverse. Some authors have focused on the structure of these explanations (Tang, 2016); others have paid attention to the ...

The objective of this study was to analyse the moderating effect of metalinguistic reflection (MR) on linguistic resources to predict the quality of the scientific explanations produced by 359 fourth-grade students who ...

The search for mechanisms and their description of explanatory and predictive purposes has been, and continues to be, a common practice in scientific research, even after the decline of classical mechanism. However, from ...

I propose a cautionary assessment of the recent debate concerning the impact of the dynamical approach on philosophical accounts of scientific explanation in the cognitive sciences and, particularly, the cognitive ...