Explanation and Understanding
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 June 2025
- ISBN 9781138700444
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages222 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Halftones, black & white; 4 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
This thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation is an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of psychology.
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Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world ? to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?
In this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:
- the background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first place
- empiricism about explanation: Hempel?s deductive-nomological model and its problems
- unificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall ?explanatory store??
- causation and explanation: Lewis?s description-based model, Woodward?s interventionist view and Strevens?s criterion of selection theory
- connections between explanation and understanding
- models, idealization and explanation
- non-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contexts
- the nature of understanding.
Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.
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1. Introduction: what this book (and isn?t) about 2. The history (and prehistory) of scientific explanation 3. The Move to Causal Accounts 4. Explanation and Difference-making 5. Production and Mechanistic Explanation 6. Models and Explanation 7. Beyond Causal Explanation 8. What is Understanding 9. Connecting understanding and explanation 10. Coda: the place of explanation. Glossary Index
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