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

Author:: Dougherty, Jude P., 1930-
Published:: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2013.
Physical Description:: xviii, 122 p. ; 21 cm.

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Contents:

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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9780813220130 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813220147 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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

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