Explaining explanation

✍ Scribed by Ruben, David-Hillel

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 259
Edition: Updated and expanded 2nd ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

I. Getting our bearings -- II. Plato on explanation -- III. Aristotle on explanation -- IV. Mill and Hempel on explanation -- V. The ontology of explanation -- VI. Arguments, laws, and explanation -- VII. A realist theory of explanation.

✦ Table of Contents

I. Getting our bearings --
II. Plato on explanation --
III. Aristotle on explanation --
IV. Mill and Hempel on explanation --
V. The ontology of explanation --
VI. Arguments, laws, and explanation --
VII. A realist theory of explanation.

✦ Subjects

Explanation;;Electronic books

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