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Depth an account of scientific explanation /

"What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to merely describe, how the world works? Michael Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. What is replaced is the test...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strevens, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Approaches to explanation
  • Causal and explanatory relevance
  • The kairetic account of difference-making
  • The kairetic account of explanation
  • Extending the kairetic account
  • Event explanation and causal claims
  • Regularity explanation
  • Abstraction in regularity explanation
  • Approaches to probabilistic explanation
  • Kairetic explanation of frequencies
  • Kairetic explanation of single outcomes
  • Looking outward
  • Looking inward.