Scientific explanation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (543 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KitcherPhilip <1947->
SalmonWesley C |
Collana | Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Methodology
Science - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8166-7463-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451737303321 |
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Scientific explanation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (543 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KitcherPhilip <1947->
SalmonWesley C |
Collana | Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Methodology
Science - Philosophy |
ISBN | 0-8166-7463-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777882203321 |
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Scientific explanation / / edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (543 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KitcherPhilip <1947->
SalmonWesley C |
Collana | Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Methodology
Science - Philosophy |
ISBN | 0-8166-7463-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819659103321 |
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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