Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which
scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of
scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of
explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory
games'. Mantzavinos provides a descriptive account of the
explanatory activity of scientists in different domains and shows
how they differ from commonsensical explanations offered in
everyday life by ordinary people and also from explanations offered
in religious contexts. He also shows how an evaluation and a
critical appraisal of explanations put forward in different social
arenas can take place on the basis of different values. Explanatory
Pluralism provides solutions to all important descriptive and
normative problems of the philosophical theory of explanation as
illustrated in sophisticated case studies from economics and
medicine, but also from mythology and religion.
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