Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben
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| Autore: |
Ruben David-Hillel
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| Titolo: |
Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | Updated and expanded second edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 121.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Explanation |
| Note generali: | First published 2012 by Paradigm Publishers. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 terminology |
| Plato'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 | |
| Hempel'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 | |
| A 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Explaining explanation |
| ISBN: | 1-317-25992-0 |
| 1-315-63473-2 | |
| 1-317-25991-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797726403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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