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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.