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Explanations : styles of explanation in science /

Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of 'explana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cornwell, John, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What good is an explanation? / Peter Lipton
  • Can science explain everything? Can science explain anything? / Steven Weinberg
  • Explaining the universe / Martin Rees
  • Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? / William C. Saslaw
  • Mathematical explanation / John D. Barrow
  • Ponderable matter : explanation in chemistry / Peter Atkins
  • The biology of the future and the future of biology / Steven Rose
  • Teleology : the explanation that bedevils biology / David Hanke
  • What is it not like to be a brain? / Colin McGinn
  • Ontology and scientific explanation / Tian Yu Cao
  • From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology / Jack Goody
  • Passing it on : redescribing scientific explanation / Jon Turney.