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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 'explanation' and its scope and limits pervades popular exposition of the natural sciences, popular history and philosophy of science. This fascinating and intriguing book explores the wayexplanations work, why they vary between disciplines, periods, and cultures, and whether they have any necessary boundaries. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxv, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191547331 0191547336 1280698853 9781280698859 9786613675811 6613675814 0191647438 9780191647437 |