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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A number of recent writers have argued that we should explain mental representation teleologically, in terms of the biological purposes of beliefs and other mental states. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
amplification requests, eliminative requirement, causal triangulation, other causal claims, contrastive questions, singular causal claims, contrastive model, noncausal facts, eliminative strategy, orientation requests, natural axiomatization, contrastive explanation, token causation, covering law theory, particular causal connections, singular explanation, parsimony argument, facts about the laws, singular causal statements, law thesis, compatible contrasts, supervenience thesis, radical interpreter, symmetry thesis, difference theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Difference Condition, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, David Lewis, Donald Davidson, Princeton University Press, Kegan Paul, The Free Press, University of Chicago Press, William the Conqueror, Minnesota Studies, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Basil Blackwell, David Ruben, Englewood Cliffs, First World War, Hilary Putnam, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Michael Redhead, Michael Scriven, The Scientific Image, New Haven New!
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A number of recent writers have argued that we should explain mental representation teleologically, in terms of the biological purposes of beliefs and other mental states. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
amplification requests, eliminative requirement, causal triangulation, other causal claims, contrastive questions, singular causal claims, contrastive model, noncausal facts, eliminative strategy, orientation requests, natural axiomatization, contrastive explanation, token causation, covering law theory, particular causal connections, singular explanation, parsimony argument, facts about the laws, singular causal statements, law thesis, compatible contrasts, supervenience thesis, radical interpreter, symmetry thesis, difference theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Difference Condition, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, David Lewis, Donald Davidson, Princeton University Press, Kegan Paul, The Free Press, University of Chicago Press, William the Conqueror, Minnesota Studies, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Basil Blackwell, David Ruben, Englewood Cliffs, First World War, Hilary Putnam, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Michael Redhead, Michael Scriven, The Scientific Image, New Haven New!
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- Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel on 11 pages
- Scientific Explanation (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by Philip Kitcher on 7 pages
- The Scientific Image (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy) by Bas. C. van Fraassen on 5 pages
- Computational Philosophy of Science (Bradford Books) by Paul Thagard on 4 pages
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 273, page 282, and page 294
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- Libertarian Accounts of Free Will by Randolph Clarke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Knowledge and Inquiry (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities) by Matti Sintonen on page 238, and page 259
- Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation by Douglas Ehring in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Princeton Science Library) by Frans de Waal in Back Matter
- Truth by Paul Horwich in Back Matter
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