Far from being inferior to physics, the special sciences are
crucial to understanding what is distinctive about scientific
explanation: that description is just as important as ontology and
that having the right attitude toward empirical evidence is as
necessary as having the right method. Explaining Explanation is a
collection of Lee McIntyre's most significant philosophical essays
from over the last twenty years. The principle areas of concern are
the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry,
but essays also cover more general problems such as
underdetermination, explanatory exclusion, the
accommodation-prediction debate, and laws in biological science.
Despite the disparate themes of each essay-complexity, laws,
explanation, prediction, reduction, supervenience, emergence, and
redescription-they all converge through the lens of the special
sciences, focusing on what it means to "explain" in the sciences.
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