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Review of unification and explanation

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REVIEW OF "UNIFICATION AND EXPLANATION" 1) H&H: no unification is explanation, cause explanation involves acquiring new beliefs, whereas unification consists in the systematization of old beliefs. 2) H&H: Explanation is derivation of the explanandum from a background theory and the auxiliary or contextual information. 3) H&H distinguishes between: i) the construction of theories and the application of theries; it seems that, they consider that the construction of theories is a less explanatory activity. ii) specified and unspecified why-questions. My considerations: I consider that, philosophy of science should be live at the intersection between intelligibility, rationality, economy, validity and science. Philosophers should treat about the most intelligible scientific notions, to promove a harmony between all special sciences, and increase the compatibility between philosophy and science. That is why, I dont like too much diverse, but I like to refine some scientific articles. The more we fall in philosophical distinctions and beliefs, the more we move off science. The more we fall in scientific details, the more we remove of philosophy...and can no more master the scientific diverse. Now, I consider, from above, that, H&H' bacground theory is, from a cognitive criterion, a special universality or generality (but only a causal one). Similarily, I consider that, the so called initial conditions or auxiliary information are/is an information that mediates the subsumption and connection between the universality and explanandum. That is, H&H'explanation is also subsumptory. But the subsumption of many individual cases under a universality (either causal or non-causal) is unificatory, clasificatory... That the construction of a theory as a response to a why-question is less explanatory, it seems to me too artificial, less important, less true, too sofisticated. We have both general explanations and particular and individual explanations. Deduction implies subsumption. The intermediar information mediates a subsumption. Subsumption is unificatory. But, the universality, at least when the explanandum is about a natural fact, should be causaly reconstructed, I consider. H&H:..."explanation thus involves acquiring new beliefs"... Consider the following case: Universality:The erosion of telomere ends causes replicativ

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