The nature of scientific explanation [electronic resource] / Jude P. Dougherty

Author:: Dougherty, Jude P., 1930-
Published:: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2013]
Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2013.
Copyright Date:: ©2013
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xviii, 122 pages )
Additional Creators:: Project Muse

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Lecture one: historical context: what is at stake -- Lecture two: induction: the perennial value of the Aristotelian perspective -- Lecture three: the principle of substance -- Lecture four: potentiality uncovered -- Lecture five: the principle of final causality -- Lecture six: use and abuse of analogy and metaphor in scientific explanation -- Lecture seven: science and the shaping of modernity: the reciprocal influence of science and culture.

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9780813220222
081322022X
9780813220130 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813220147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813220149

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-118) and index.

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