عنوان

Explanation, Causation and Deduction

(Number (ISBN

940095249X

(Number (ISBN

9789400952492

Number

b553950

Title Proper

Explanation, Causation and Deduction

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Fred Wilson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1985

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(400 pages)

Series Title

University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science and Related Fields, 26.

Text of Note

1 / The Deductive Model of Explanation: A Statement --;1.1. Explanation and Deduction --;1.2. The Humean Account of Laws --;1.3. The Evidential Worth of Law-Assertions --;1.4. That Some Explanations Are Better than Others --;1.5. That Technical Rules of Computation Are Laws --;2 / The Reasonability of the Deductive Model --;2.1. Why Ought the Deductive Model Be Accepted? --;2.2. Are There Reasoned Predictions Which Are Not Explanations? --;2.3. Is Correlation Less Explanatory than Causation? --;2.4. Is Causation Inseparable from Action? --;2.5. Are There Explanations Without Predictions? --;2.6. Explanation and Judgment --;3 / Explanations and Explanings --;3.1. Explanations in the Context of Communication --;3.2. Formalist Criticisms of the Deductive Model --;3.3. Explanations and Explanatory Content --;3.4. Narrative and Integrating Explanations --;3.5. Are Laws Evidence for, or Part of, Explanations? --;3.6. Can We Know Causes Without Knowing Laws? --;Conclusion --;Notes --;Notes to Chapter 1 --;Notes to Chapter 2 --;Notes to Chapter 3 --;Notes to Conclusion --;Name Index.

Text of Note

In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations that are not scientific, scientific explanations that are not deductive, deductions from laws that are neither causal explanations nor scientific explanations, and causal explanations that involve no deductions from laws.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

Class number

Book number

by Fred Wilson.

Fred Wilson

Electronic name

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