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Scientific Explanation.
Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of philosophical attention from Pre-Socratic times through the modern period. However, recent discussion really begins with the development of the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model. This model has had many advocates (including Popper 1935, 19...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1962.
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| Colección: | Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; Four Decades of Scientific Explanation; Explanation and Metaphysical Controversy; Explanation: In Search of the Rationale; Scientific Explanation: The Causes, Some of the Causes, and Nothing But the Causes; Pure, Mixed, and Spurious Probabilities and Their Significance for a Reductionist Theory of Causation; Capacities and Abstractions; The Causal Mechanical Model of Explanation; Explanation in the Social Sciences; Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World; Contributors; Index.