Explaining explanation

Explaining explanation

by Ruben, David-Hillel

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Explaining explanation / David-Hillel Ruben.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2012.
  • Edition:Updated and expanded 2nd ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Paradigm Publishers
  • Place of Publication:Boulder
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 246 pages.)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781315634739 (electronic bk), 1315634732 (electronic bk)
  • oclc:on1100486078
  • LC Classification:BD237
  • Dewey Decimal:121/.4

Table of Contents

I. Getting our bearings -- Some explanations -- Process and product -- The methodology of explaining explanation -- Restricting the scope of the analysis -- Scientific and ordinary explanation -- Partial and full explanation -- Bad explanations and no explanations -- Some terminology -- Theories of explanation -- Dispensing with contrastives -- II. Plato on explanation -- The Phaedo -- Platonic explanantia and explananda -- Problems for the physical explainers -- Some terminology -- Plato's Principles -- Plato's (PP2) -- Plato's (PP1) -- The Theaetetus -- Summary -- III. Aristotle on explanation -- The doctrine of the four causes -- Does Aristotle have a general account of explanation? -- Incidental and per se causes -- Necessitation and laws in explanation -- Aristotle on scientific explanation -- Aristotle's demonstrations -- Summary -- IV. Mill and Hempel on explanation -- Mill's account of explanation : laws of coexistence and succession -- Mill's account of explanation : the symmetry thesis -- Mill on ultimate explanations -- Mill on deduction and explanation -- Hempel's account of scientific explanation -- Hempel's methodology -- Hempel on the symmetry thesis -- Hempel on in…

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Subjects

Explanation Explication

Writers

Ruben, David-Hillel

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