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Scientific Explanation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)
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Scientific Explanation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)
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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