Narrative Explanation

Juarrero argues that explaining self-organizing action requires hermeneutic narrative, not deductive law-like regularity.

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Explaining self-organizing action requires narrative (hermeneutic) explanation, not deductive law-like subsumption.
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Justifies why dynamical accounts necessitate stories; historical, contextual unfolding cannot be captured by timeless laws.

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Narrative explanation is necessary for explaining self-organizing dynamical systems because their behavior cannot be reduced to deductive-nomological form.claim0.761
mechanistic explanationconcept0.753
Explanations derived from model internals that describe the biological mechanism of variant effect.
Narration Elicitationmethod0.732
Alternative elicitation using neutral scenarios continued as stories with few-shot exemplars establishing persona
Part III: Explaining Human Action: Why Dynamics Tell Us That Stories Are Necessaryconcept0.727
Epistemological consequence: shows why narrative explanation is necessary for explaining self-organizing action (Chapters 14–15).
Psychological explanation of Iframework0.725
Version of the I-hypothesis: the I is a structural coincidence between living structure and deep human cognitive structures, giving a sense of self.
Self As Self Telling Storyconcept0.720
Personal Justificationconcept0.715
The sense in which a person is justified in holding a belief, tied to phenomenal consciousness.
Faithfulness of Explanationsconcept0.714
Property of explanations that accurately reflect the actual causal mechanisms of the model being explained.