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Explaining Explanation

- Essays in the Philosophy of the Special Sciences
Af: Lee McIntyre Engelsk Paperback

Explaining Explanation

- Essays in the Philosophy of the Special Sciences
Af: Lee McIntyre Engelsk Paperback
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Far from being inferior to physics, the special sciences are crucial to understanding what is distinctive about scientific explanation: that description is just as important as ontology and that having the right attitude toward empirical evidence is as necessary as having the right method. Explaining Explanation is a collection of Lee McIntyre’s most significant philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. The principle areas of concern are the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry, but essays also cover more general problems such as underdetermination, explanatory exclusion, the accommodation-prediction debate, and laws in biological science. Despite the disparate themes of each essay—complexity, laws, explanation, prediction, reduction, supervenience, emergence, and redescription—they all converge through the lens of the special sciences, focusing on what it means to “explain” in the sciences.
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Far from being inferior to physics, the special sciences are crucial to understanding what is distinctive about scientific explanation: that description is just as important as ontology and that having the right attitude toward empirical evidence is as necessary as having the right method. Explaining Explanation is a collection of Lee McIntyre’s most significant philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. The principle areas of concern are the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry, but essays also cover more general problems such as underdetermination, explanatory exclusion, the accommodation-prediction debate, and laws in biological science. Despite the disparate themes of each essay—complexity, laws, explanation, prediction, reduction, supervenience, emergence, and redescription—they all converge through the lens of the special sciences, focusing on what it means to “explain” in the sciences.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 250
ISBN-13: 9780761858690
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0761858695
Kategori: Videnskabsfilosofi
Udg. Dato: 19 apr 2012
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 160mm
Højde: 232mm
Forlag: University Press of America
Oplagsdato: 19 apr 2012
Forfatter(e): Lee McIntyre
Forfatter(e) Lee McIntyre


Kategori Videnskabsfilosofi


ISBN-13 9780761858690


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 250


Udgave


Længde 16mm


Bredde 160mm


Højde 232mm


Udg. Dato 19 apr 2012


Oplagsdato 19 apr 2012


Forlag University Press of America

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