A philosophical theory of explanation should provide solutions to a series of problems, both descriptive and normative. The aim of this essay is to establish the claim that this can be best done if one theorizes in terms of explanatory games rather than focusing on the explication of the concept...

There are three main approaches to scientific explanation in the philosophical literature. The unification approach claims that science explains by fitting the particular facts and events within a general theoretical framework. The mechanistic approach claims that science explains by identifying...

This comment on the legitimacy of intervention has two interrelated parts. The first part is of a general nature and concerns the problem of the justification of legitimate intervention. The second part will address the problem of intervention under conditions of epistemic and normative...

One way to show that text interpretation can be treated as a scientific problem is to show that the standards that are currently used in the natural sciences when dealing with problems not involving meaningful material can also be successfully employed in the case of text interpretation. These...

This overview paper introduces some basic concepts of New Institutional Economics like the conceptualization of institutions as the rules of the game and then focuses on the two basic mechanisms of emergence and evolution of social institutions, i.e. as a product of collective action or as a...