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Author:   David-Hillel Ruben (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.432kg
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9780198751304

ISBN 10:   0198751303
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   27 May 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Explanation in science and history - aspects of scientific explanation, Carl Hempel; Hempel's ambiguity, J. Alberto Coffa; scientific explanation and the causal structure of the world, Wesley Salmon; towards an Aristotelian theory of scientific explanation, B. Brody; on an Aristotelian model of scientific explanation, Timothy McCarthy; can there be a model of explanation?, Peter Achinstein; probability, explanation and information, Peter Railton; causal explanation, David Lewis; contrastive explanation, Peter Lipton; a theory of singular causal explanation, James Woodward; explanatory realism, causal realism and explanatory exclusion, Jaegwom Kim; the pragmatics of explanation, B.C. van Fraassen; van Fraassen on explanation, Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon; the pragmatic character of explanation, Peter Achinstein; explaining and explanation, Robert J. Matthews.

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'This book is ideal for a course on explanation, or a phil of sc course with a focus on explanation Desmond M. Clarke, University College, Cork 'A very useful collection of papers for a final year special study and also suitable for second year students in Theory of Knowledge as supplementary reading.' David Hirschmann, University of Bristol

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