caa a22 4500 445838078 CHVBK 20180317145335.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11023-010-9216-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11023-010-9216-9 The Covering Law Model Applied to Dynamical Cognitive Science: A Comment on Joel Walmsley [Elektronische Daten] [Raoul Gervais, Erik Weber] In a 2008 paper, Walmsley argued that the explanations employed in the dynamical approach to cognitive science, as exemplified by the Haken, Kelso and Bunz model of rhythmic finger movement, and the model of infant preservative reaching developed by Esther Thelen and her colleagues, conform to Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim's deductive-nomological model of explanation (also known as the covering law model). Although we think Walmsley's approach is methodologically sound in that it starts with an analysis of scientific practice rather than a general philosophical framework, we nevertheless feel that there are two problems with his paper. First, he focuses only on the deductivenomological model and so neglects the important fact that explanations are causal. Second, the explanations offered by the dynamical approach do not take the deductive-nomological format, because they do not deduce the explananda from exceptionless laws. Because of these two points, Walmsley makes the dynamical explanations in cognitive science appear problematic, while in fact they are not. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Explanation nationallicence Covering law nationallicence Dynamical cognitive science nationallicence Cognition nationallicence Causal asymmetry nationallicence Dynamicism nationallicence Gervais Raoul Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium aut Weber Erik Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium aut Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 33-39 0924-6495 21:1<33 2011 21 11023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9216-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9216-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gervais Raoul Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weber Erik Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 33-39 0924-6495 21:1<33 2011 21 11023 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer