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Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world - to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?
In this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:
- the background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first place
- empiricism about explanation: Hempel's deductive-nomological model and its problems
- unificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall 'explanatory store'?
- causation and explanation: Lewis's description-based model, Woodward's interventionist view and Strevens's criterion of selection theory
- connections between explanation and understanding
- models, idealization and explanation
- non-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contexts
- the nature of understanding.
Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.
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- Auteur(s):
- Uitgeverij:
Inhoud
- Aantal bladzijden:
- 216
- Taal:
- Engels
- Reeks:
Eigenschappen
- Productcode (EAN):
- 9781138700420
- Verschijningsdatum:
- 30/06/2025
- Uitvoering:
- Hardcover
- Formaat:
- Genaaid
- Afmetingen:
- 156 mm x 234 mm
- Gewicht:
- 489 g
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