Book Details

Rethinking Explanation

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-4020-5581-2

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This book highlights some of the conceptual problems that still need to be solved and points out a number of fresh philosophical ideas to explore. Anyone interested in causal and probabilistic explanation, explanation-seeking questions and contrastive explanations, inference to the best explanation, or explanations within the special sciences should find something of interest in this book.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, knowledge, philosophy of science, science