Explaining explanation

by Ruben, David-Hillel

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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:xii, 246 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781612050676, 1612050670, 9781612050683, 1612050689
oclc:ocn714715829
LC Classification:BD237
Dewey Decimal:121/.4

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…