LEADER 04018oam 2200625I 450 001 9910460710603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-317-25992-0 010 $a1-315-63473-2 010 $a1-317-25991-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315634739 035 $a(CKB)3710000000526725 035 $a(EBL)4186409 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001580249 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16260512 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580249 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14861531 035 $a(PQKB)10025552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4186409 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4186409 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11127982 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL877790 035 $a(OCoLC)932339749 035 $a(OCoLC)958107276 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000526725 100 $a20180706e20162012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExplaining explanation /$fDavid-Hillel Ruben 205 $aUpdated and expanded second edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2012 by Paradigm Publishers. 311 $a1-61205-068-9 311 $a1-61205-067-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 terminology 327 $aPlato'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 explanation 327 $aHempel'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: symmetry 327 $aA 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 Author 606 $aExplanation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aExplanation. 676 $a121.4 700 $aRuben$b David-Hillel.$0125075 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460710603321 996 $aExplaining explanation$92042396 997 $aUNINA