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Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben
| Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Edizione | [Updated and expanded second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121.4 |
| Soggetto topico | Explanation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-25992-0
1-315-63473-2 1-317-25991-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben
| Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Edizione | [Updated and expanded second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121.4 |
| Soggetto topico | Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-317-25992-0
1-315-63473-2 1-317-25991-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797726403321 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben
| Explaining explanation / / David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Edizione | [Updated and expanded second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina | 121.4 |
| Soggetto topico | Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-317-25992-0
1-315-63473-2 1-317-25991-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827925503321 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining explanation [[electronic resource] /] / David-Hillel Ruben
| Explaining explanation [[electronic resource] /] / David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992, c1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina |
121.4
160 |
| Collana | The problems of philosophy : their past and present |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Explanation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-88232-7
1-280-02580-8 0-203-16930-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Explaining Explanation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 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 Principles; Plato'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: laws of coexistence and succession; Mill's account: the symmetry thesis; Mill on ultimate explanations; Mill on deduction and explanation; Hempel's account of scientific explanation; Hempel's methodology; Hempel on the symmetry thesis Hempel on inductive-statistical explanationHempel 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; VI Arguments, Laws, and Explanation; The standard counterexamples: irrelevance; The standard counterexamples: symmetry; A proposed cure and its problems: the causal condition; Generalizations get their revenge VII A Realist Theory of ExplanationAre 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 and low dependency explanations; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451491803321 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992, c1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining explanation [[electronic resource] /] / David-Hillel Ruben
| Explaining explanation [[electronic resource] /] / David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992, c1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina |
121.4
160 |
| Collana | The problems of philosophy : their past and present |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-134-88232-7
1-280-02580-8 0-203-16930-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Explaining Explanation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 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 Principles; Plato'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: laws of coexistence and succession; Mill's account: the symmetry thesis; Mill on ultimate explanations; Mill on deduction and explanation; Hempel's account of scientific explanation; Hempel's methodology; Hempel on the symmetry thesis Hempel on inductive-statistical explanationHempel 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; VI Arguments, Laws, and Explanation; The standard counterexamples: irrelevance; The standard counterexamples: symmetry; A proposed cure and its problems: the causal condition; Generalizations get their revenge VII A Realist Theory of ExplanationAre 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 and low dependency explanations; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783657203321 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992, c1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining explanation [[electronic resource] /] / David-Hillel Ruben
| Explaining explanation [[electronic resource] /] / David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992, c1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina |
121.4
160 |
| Collana | The problems of philosophy : their past and present |
| Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-134-88232-7
1-280-02580-8 0-203-16930-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Explaining Explanation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 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 Principles; Plato'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: laws of coexistence and succession; Mill's account: the symmetry thesis; Mill on ultimate explanations; Mill on deduction and explanation; Hempel's account of scientific explanation; Hempel's methodology; Hempel on the symmetry thesis Hempel on inductive-statistical explanationHempel 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; VI Arguments, Laws, and Explanation; The standard counterexamples: irrelevance; The standard counterexamples: symmetry; A proposed cure and its problems: the causal condition; Generalizations get their revenge VII A Realist Theory of ExplanationAre 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 and low dependency explanations; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807331303321 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992, c1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Metaphysics of Action [[electronic resource] ] : Trying, Doing, Causing / / by David-Hillel Ruben
| The Metaphysics of Action [[electronic resource] ] : Trying, Doing, Causing / / by David-Hillel Ruben |
| Autore | Ruben David-Hillel |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Disciplina | 128.3709 |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphysics
Epistemology Philosophy of mind Ontology Philosophy of Mind |
| ISBN | 3-319-90347-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Physical Action Theory of Trying -- 3. Trying in Some Way -- 4. A Conditional Theory of Trying -- 5. Causing and Doing -- 6. Doing and Causing -- 7. Causing in Some Way -- 8. Regress Issues and Action Scepticism. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300636103321 |
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Ruben David-Hillel
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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