04019oam 2200625I 450 991079772640332120230808212706.01-317-25992-01-315-63473-21-317-25991-210.4324/9781315634739 (CKB)3710000000526725(EBL)4186409(SSID)ssj0001580249(PQKBManifestationID)16260512(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580249(PQKBWorkID)14861531(PQKB)10025552(MiAaPQ)EBC4186409(Au-PeEL)EBL4186409(CaPaEBR)ebr11127982(CaONFJC)MIL877790(OCoLC)932339749(OCoLC)958107276(FINmELB)ELB144953(EXLCZ)99371000000052672520180706e20162012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExplaining explanation /David-Hillel RubenUpdated and expanded second edition.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (259 p.)First published 2012 by Paradigm Publishers.1-61205-068-9 1-61205-067-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Preface to the Second Edition; I Getting our Bearings; Some explanations; Process and product; The methodology of explaining explanation; Restricting the scope of the analysis; Scientific and ordinary explanation; Partial and full explanation; Bad explanations and no explanations; Some terminology; Theories of explanation; Dispensing with contrastives; II Plato on Explanation; The Phaedo; Platonic explanantia and explananda; Problems for the physical explainers; Some terminologyPlato's PrinciplesPlato's (PP2); Plato's (PP1); The Theaetetus; Summary; III Aristotle on Explanation; The doctrine of the four causes; Does Aristotle have a general account of explanation?; Incidental and per se causes; Necessitation and laws in explanation; Aristotle on scientific explanation; Aristotle's demonstrations; Summary; IV Mill and Hempel on Explanation; Mill's account of explanation: laws of coexistence and succession; Mill's account of explanation: the symmetry thesis; Mill on ultimate explanations; Mill on deduction and explanation; Hempel's account of scientific explanationHempel's methodologyHempel on the symmetry thesis; Hempel on inductive-statistical explanation; Hempel on epistemic ambiguity; Summary; V The Ontology of Explanation; Explanation and epistemology; Extensionality and the slingshot; The relata of the explanation relation; Explaining facts; The non-extensionality of facts; Facts: worldly or wordy?; The co-typical predicate extensionality of facts; The name transparency of facts; Addendum on Gideon Rosen's conception of facts; VI Arguments, Laws, and Explanation; The standard counterexamples: irrelevance; The standard counterexamples: symmetryA proposed cure and its problems: the causal conditionGeneralizations get their revenge; VII A Realist Theory of Explanation; Are all singular explanations causal explanations?; What would make an explanation non-causal?; Identity and explanation; Are there other non-causal singular explanations?; Disposition explanations; Again: determinative, high dependency, and low dependency explanations; Postscript on Gideon Rosen; Notes; Bibliography; Reviews of the First Edition of Explaining Explanation; Name Index; Subject Index; About the AuthorExplanationExplanation.121.4Ruben David-Hillel.125075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797726403321Explaining explanation3702500UNINA