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Explanation and its limits / edited by Dudley Knowles

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Explanation & its Limits
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Knowles, Dudley and Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Explanation and its Limits (1989 : University of Glasgow)
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Contents
Truth and teleology / David Papineau -- Functional support for anomalous monism / Jim Edwards -- Explanation in biology / John Maynard Smith -- Let's razor Ockhams's razor / Elliott Sober -- Singular explanation and the social sciences / David-Hillel Ruben -- Explanation and understanding in social science / John Skorupski -- Explanation / Michael Redhead -- Explanation in physical theory / Peter Clark -- The limits of explanation / Richard Swinburne -- Limited explanations / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Supervenience and singular causal claims / James Woodward -- Contrastive explanations / Peter Lipton -- How to put questions to nature / Matti Sintonen -- Explanation and scientific realism / Philip Gasper -- How do scientific explanations explain? / Joyce Kinoshita.
Summary
This collection of new essays explores the nature of explanation and causality. It provides a stimulating and wide ranging debate on one of the central issues that has concerned philosophers and scientists alike - the epistemological nature of their enquiries. The volume not only sheds light on some of the general questions involved, but also addresses specific problems involved in explanation in different fields - physics, biology, psychology and the social sciences. Explanation and its Limits is an up-to-date, sharply focused and comprehensive review for all philosophers, scientists and social scientists interested in methodology.
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9780511599705 (ebook)
9780521395984 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
"The papers collected in this volume were delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Explanation and its Limits in September 1989 at the University of Glasgow."
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