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explanation

Description: An account that clarifies why or how something occurs by identifying relevant causes, reasons, or relationships.
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The Nature of Theory in Information Systems1
2006 · Shirley Gregor · MIS Quarterly · 3,300
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Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach.
1986 · John Harp, Andrew Sayer · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2,603
Inference to the Best Explanation
2003 · Peter Lipton · Routledge eBooks · 2,272
What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
1994 · Nicolas Dodier, Charles C. Ragin, et al. · Revue Française de Sociologie · 1,943
The nature of explanation
1943 · Kenneth Craik · 1,836
The Inference to the Best Explanation
1965 · Gilbert H. Harman · The Philosophical Review · 1,746
Handbook of Organizational Justice
2013 · Psychology Press eBooks · 1,616
Networked Narratives: UnderstandingWord-of-Mouth Marketing in Online Communities
2014 · 1,486
Problems of Explanation in Economic Sociology
1992 · Mark Granovetter · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,433
Explanation and Understanding
1972 · Tom L. Beauchamp · International Philosophical Quarterly · 1,412
Explanation and Understanding
2005 · Frank C. Keil · Annual Review of Psychology · 1,339
An introduction to case-based reasoning
1992 · Janet L. Kolodner · Artificial Intelligence Review · 1,041
What Is Field Theory?
2003 · John Levi Martin · American Journal of Sociology · 1,003
Working models of attachment: Implications for explanation, emotion, and behavior.
1996 · Nancy L. Collins · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 995
Historical Linguistics and Language Change
1997 · Roger Lass · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 960
Attention is not not Explanation
2019 · Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter · 950
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Ordinal Conditional Functions: A Dynamic Theory of Epistemic States
1988 · Wolfgang Spohn · Springer eBooks · 934
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Validity in Interpretation
1968 · George Dickie, E. D. Hirsch · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 934
Mechanisms and the nature of causation
1996 · StuartS. Glennan · Erkenntnis · 894
Essays in Quasi-Realism
1993 · Simon Blackburn · 873
Explanation in Geography
1970 · S. Gregory, David Harvey · Geographical Journal · 872
Interpretation and the Sciences of Man
1973 · Charles Taylor · Springer eBooks · 864
Attention is not Explanation
2019 · Sarthak Jain, Byron C. Wallace · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 853
Explaining social behavior: more nuts and bolts for the social sciences
2008 · Elster, Jon 1940- · Choice Reviews Online · 834
39. Philosophical Explanations
2015 · Robert Nozick · Princeton University Press eBooks · 774
Works count: 11,220
Citation count: 162,800
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