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Title Theories of explanation / edited by Joseph C. Pitt.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  501 T343 1988    ---  Available
Description 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Studies in the logic of explanation / Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim -- Explanations, predictions and laws / Michael Scriven -- Statistical explanation and causality / Wesley C. Salmon -- A deductive-nomological model of probabilistic explanation / Peter Railton -- The pragmatic theory of explanation / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Theoretical explanation / Wilfrid Sellars -- Explanatory unification / Philip Kitcher -- Explanation and scientific understanding / Michael Friedman -- The illocutionary theory of explanation / Peter Achinstein.
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Explanation.
Philosophy.
Science.
Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Explanation. (OCoLC)fst00918538
Science -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01108336
Added Author Pitt, Joseph C.
ISBN 0195049705 (alk. paper)
9780195049701 (alk. paper)
0195049713 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780195049718 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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