"The papers collected in this volume were delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Explanation and its Limits in September 1989 at the University of Glasgow."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Truth and teleology / David Papineau -- Functional support for anomalous monism / Jim Edwards -- Explanation in biology / John Maynard Smith -- Let's razor Ockhams's razor / Elliott Sober -- Singular explanation and the social sciences / David-Hillel Ruben -- Explanation and understanding in social science / John Skorupski -- Explanation / Michael Redhead -- Explanation in physical theory / Peter Clark -- The limits of explanation / Richard Swinburne -- Limited explanations / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Supervenience and singular causal claims / James Woodward -- Contrastive explanations / Peter Lipton -- How to put questions to nature / Matti Sintonen -- Explanation and scientific realism / Philip Gasper -- How do scientific explanations explain? / Joyce Kinoshita.
