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Causation and explanation / / Stathis Psillos
| Causation and explanation / / Stathis Psillos |
| Autore | Psillos Stathis <1965-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Collana | Central problems of philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-48976-4
1-317-48977-2 1-315-71071-4 1-282-92132-0 9786612921322 1-84465-331-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Causation; 1 Hume on causation; 2 Regularities and singular causation; 3 Causation and counterfactuals; 4 Causation and mechanism; II Laws of nature; 5 The regularity view of laws; 6 Laws as relations among universals; 7 Alternative approaches to laws; III Explanation; 8 Deductive-nomological explanation; 9 Statistical explanation; 10 Explanation of laws; 11 The metaphysics of explanation; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459496003321 |
Psillos Stathis <1965-, >
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| Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / Stathis Psillos
| Causation and explanation / / Stathis Psillos |
| Autore | Psillos Stathis <1965-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Collana | Central problems of philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-317-48976-4
1-317-48977-2 1-315-71071-4 1-282-92132-0 9786612921322 1-84465-331-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Causation; 1 Hume on causation; 2 Regularities and singular causation; 3 Causation and counterfactuals; 4 Causation and mechanism; II Laws of nature; 5 The regularity view of laws; 6 Laws as relations among universals; 7 Alternative approaches to laws; III Explanation; 8 Deductive-nomological explanation; 9 Statistical explanation; 10 Explanation of laws; 11 The metaphysics of explanation; Notes; References; Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Causation & Explanation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785315203321 |
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Psillos Stathis <1965-, >
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| Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / Stathis Psillos
| Causation and explanation / / Stathis Psillos |
| Autore | Psillos Stathis <1965-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Collana | Central problems of philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| ISBN |
1-317-48976-4
1-317-48977-2 1-315-71071-4 1-282-92132-0 9786612921322 1-84465-331-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Causation; 1 Hume on causation; 2 Regularities and singular causation; 3 Causation and counterfactuals; 4 Causation and mechanism; II Laws of nature; 5 The regularity view of laws; 6 Laws as relations among universals; 7 Alternative approaches to laws; III Explanation; 8 Deductive-nomological explanation; 9 Statistical explanation; 10 Explanation of laws; 11 The metaphysics of explanation; Notes; References; Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Causation & Explanation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818895003321 |
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Psillos Stathis <1965-, >
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| Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
| Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09908-6
9786612099083 0-262-26976-7 1-4294-9238-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452296503321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
| Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09908-6
9786612099083 0-262-26976-7 1-4294-9238-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777770703321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
| Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 122 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
| Collana | Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Causation
Explanation |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09908-6
9786612099083 0-262-26976-7 1-4294-9238-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818475203321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460710603321 |
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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-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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