Levels and Kinds of Explanation: Lessons from Neuropsychiatry

Levels and Kinds of Explanation: Lessons from Neuropsychiatry

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I use an example from neuropsychiatry, namely delusional misidentification, to show a distinction between levels of explanation and kinds of explanation.Building on a pragmatic view of explanation, different kinds of explanation arise because Mens Shirts we have different kinds of explanatory concerns.One important kind of explanatory concern involves asking a certain kind of why question.

Answering such questions provides a personal explanation, namely, renders intelligible Bike Units - Fat Bikes the beliefs and actions of other persons.I use contrasting theories of delusional misidentification to highlight how different facts about the phenomenon that is being explained impose constraints on the availability of personal explanation.