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Scientific Explanation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi) Loot Price: R1,867
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Scientific Explanation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi): Philip Kitcher, Wesley C. Salmon

Scientific Explanation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)

Philip Kitcher, Wesley C. Salmon

Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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Scientific Explanation was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Is a new consensus emerging in the philosophy of science? The nine distinguished contributors to this volume apply that question to the realm of scientific explanation and, although their conclusions vary, they agree in one respect: there definitely was an old consensus. Co-editor Wesley Salmon's opening essay, "Four Decades of Scientific Explanation," grounds the entire discussion. His point of departure is the founding document of the old consensus: a 1948 paper by Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, "Studies in the Logic of Explanation," that set forth, with remarkable clarity, a mode of argument that came to be known as the deductive-nomological model. This approach, holding that explanation dies not move beyond the sphere of empirical knowledge, remained dominant during the hegemony of logical empiricism from 1950 to 1975. Salmon traces in detail the rise and breakup of the old consensus, and examines the degree to which there is, if not a new consensus, at least a kind of reconciliation on this issue among contemporary philosophers of science and clear agreement that science can indeed tell us why. The other contributors, in the order of their presentations, are: Peter Railton, Matti Sintonen, Paul W. Humphreys, David Papineau, Nancy Cartwright, James Woodward, Merrilee H. Salmon, and Philip Kitcher.

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Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Release date: May 1962
First published: May 1962
Editors: Philip Kitcher • Wesley C. Salmon
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: Minnesota Archi
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5765-0
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
LSN: 0-8166-5765-3
Barcode: 9780816657650

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