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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464726703321

Autore

Dougherty Jude P. <1930->

Titolo

The nature of scientific explanation / / Jude P. Dougherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Catholic University of America Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8132-2022-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Knowledge, Theory of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Lecture one: historical context: what is at stake -- Lecture two: induction: the perennial value of the Aristotelian perspective -- Lecture three: the principle of substance -- Lecture four: potentiality uncovered -- Lecture five: the principle of final causality -- Lecture six: use and abuse of analogy and metaphor in scientific explanation -- Lecture seven: science and the shaping of modernity: the reciprocal influence of science and culture.