02838nam 2200577Ia 450 991081965910332120200520144314.00-8166-7463-9(CKB)1000000000470950(EBL)310140(OCoLC)437188404(SSID)ssj0000242354(PQKBManifestationID)11176205(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000242354(PQKBWorkID)10301515(PQKB)11371971(MiAaPQ)EBC310140(Au-PeEL)EBL310140(CaPaEBR)ebr10159395(EXLCZ)99100000000047095019890816d1989 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScientific explanation /edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19891 online resource (543 p.)Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ;v. 13Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-0266-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Four Decades of Scientific Explanation; Explanation and Metaphysical Controversy; Explanation: In Search of the Rationale; Scientific Explanation: The Causes, Some of the Causes, and Nothing But the Causes; Pure, Mixed, and Spurious Probabilities and Their Significance for a Reductionist Theory of Causation; Capacities and Abstractions; The Causal Mechanical Model of Explanation; Explanation in the Social Sciences; Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World; Contributors; IndexIssues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of philosophical attention from Pre-Socratic times through the modern period. However, recent discussion really begins with the development of the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model. This model has had many advocates (including Popper 1935, 1959, Braithwaite 1953, Gardiner, 1959, Nagel 1961) but unquestionably the most detailed and influential statement is due to Carl Hempel (Hempel 1942, 1965, and Hempel & Oppenheim 1948). These papers and the reaction to them have structured subsequent discussion concerning scientific explanation to anMinnesota studies in the philosophy of science ;v. 13.ScienceMethodologySciencePhilosophyScienceMethodology.SciencePhilosophy.501Kitcher Philip1947-66707Salmon Wesley C50114MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819659103321Scientific explanation3942953UNINA