<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talk.  Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on YouTube at </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" id="m_5527571610762770830m_-6310164729069129017m_4768053712087365814m_5325597691245477853gmail-OWA5aa3cc70-5f36-2d77-0553-385c78dc6aa9" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a></u></span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">.    </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><b>LTT: </b></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Aliya Dewey</b></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Aliya's 5 min. Introduction Video:  <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://youtu.be/xfLZNqVb9CE" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xfLZNqVb9CE</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Friday, November 1st @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm E</span>DT</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><b> </b></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 0.75em;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Title: Design explanation in behavioral neuroscience</b></span></p><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:bolder;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Abstract:</span><b> </b>Explanation in behavioral neuroscience is often thought to be mechanistic—to explain stimulus-response pairs by describing a mechanism (working parts “causally between” stimuli and responses). I suggest that behavioural neuroscientists in fact want a richer form of explanation—one that explains task-performance pairs by describing some kind of correspondence between the mechanism and the structure required to perform the task. In other words, they want an explanation for how a mechanism realises competent task performance as such. Using a detailed case study of sound localisation in the barn owl (<i>Tyto alba</i>), I argue that this form of explanation—which I call “design explanation”—integrates mechanistic, minimal model, and constraint-based forms of explanation.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><b><br></b></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-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