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xiv, 528 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 13
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
Four decades of scientific explanation / Wesley C. Salmon -- Explanation and metaphysical controversy / Peter Railton -- Explanation : in search of the rationale / Matti Sintonen -- Scientific explanation : the causes, some of the causes, and nothing but the causes / Paul W. Humphreys -- Pure, mixed, and spurious probabilities and their significance for a reductionist theory of causation / David Papineau -- Capacities and abstractions / Nancy Cartwright -- The causal mechanical model of explanation / James Woodward -- Explanation in the social sciences / Merrilee H. Salmon -- Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world / Philip Kitcher. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Methodology. |
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Sciences -- Philosophie. |
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Sciences -- Méthodologie. |
| Added Author |
Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
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Salmon, Wesley C.
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| ISBN |
0816617732 |
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0816617740 |
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