Explanatory efficiency: A framework for analyzing the dynamic properties of explanatory games

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer212
FachzeitschriftSYNTHESE
Jahrgang201
Ausgabenummer6
Frühes Online-Datum9 Juni 2023
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juni 2023

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In this paper I will discuss the problem of evaluating dynamic properties of the procedural rules that govern science. I will propose a novel framework for evaluating dynamic properties of such rules. This framework is based upon an analogy from New Institutional Economics. I will argue that the concept of ‘adaptive efficiency’, as it has been developed by Douglass North, solves a problem in economics that is analogous to the problem of evaluating dynamic properties of the procedural rules that govern science. I will propose to apply the main ideas underlying this concept to Chrysostomos Mantzavinos’s theory of Explanatory Games. Based on these ideas, I will develop the concept of ‘explanatory efficiency’. This concept is meant to provide the means to evaluate the dynamic properties of Explanatory Games. I will argue that the proposed analogy also motivates more general applications of New Institutional Economics to traditional problems of philosophy of science.

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Explanatory efficiency: A framework for analyzing the dynamic properties of explanatory games. / Lipski, Jonas.
in: SYNTHESE, Jahrgang 201, Nr. 6, 212, 06.2023.

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Lipski J. Explanatory efficiency: A framework for analyzing the dynamic properties of explanatory games. SYNTHESE. 2023 Jun;201(6):212. Epub 2023 Jun 9. doi: 10.1007/s11229-023-04208-0
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