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explanation, prediction and understanding, categorization

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New Bulgarian University: Sofia, BG

2020 to present | Professor (Cognitive Science and Psychology)
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Lilia Gurova

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Philosophy of Science Association: Baltimore, Maryland, US

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European Philosophy of Science Association: Vienna, AT

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Works (11)

Understanding and inference in recent works on scientific understanding

2024-08-20 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003437239-5
Contributors: Lilia Gurova
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The Uses of Truth: Is There Room for Reconciliation of Factivist and Non-Factivist Accounts of Scientific Understanding?

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2022-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2084329
Contributors: Lilia Gurova
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A reason to avoid the causal construal of dispositional explanations

Organon F
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85037057681
Contributors: Gurova, L.
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Are Causal Accounts of Explanation Always Useful? In the Case of Personality Trait Explanations They Are Probably Not

EPSA15 Selected Papers
2017 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53730-6_14
Part of ISBN: 9783319537290
Part of ISSN: 2365-4228
Contributors: Lilia Gurova
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On Some Non-trivial Implications of the View that Good Explanations Increase Our Understanding of Explained Phenomena

Balkan Journal of Philosophy
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5840/bjp2017914
Part of ISSN: 1313-888X
Contributors: Lilia Gurova; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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The principle based explanations are not extinct in cognitive science: The case of the basic level effects

Philosophia Scientiae
2014 | Book
DOI: 10.4000/philosophiascientiae.1017
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2-s2.0-84923873908
Contributors: Gurova, L.
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'Understanding it makes it normal': Is it a reasoning fallacy or not?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12051
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2-s2.0-84878268440
Contributors: Gurova, L.
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Principles Versus Mechanisms in Cognitive Science

EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science
2013 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01306-0_32
Part of ISBN: 9783319013053
Contributors: Lilia Gurova
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Philosophy of Science A-Z by Stathis Psillos

Balkan Journal of Philosophy
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5840/bjp20091211
Part of ISSN: 1313-888X
Contributors: Lilia Gurova; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Philosophy of Science Meets Cognitive Science: The Categorization Debate

Bulgarian Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2003 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0961-3_10
Part of ISBN: 9789048163717
Part of ISSN: 0068-0346
Contributors: Lilia Gurova
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VII. Sparse and dense categories: what they tell us about natural kinds

Ontological Landscapes
Other
DOI: 10.1515/9783110319811.157
Part of ISBN: 9783110319811
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