โ Scribed by David-Hillel Ruben
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In Explaining Explanation, David-Hillel Ruben provides a non-technical discussion of some of the main historical attempts to explain the concept of explanation, examining the works of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Hempel. Building on and developing the insights of these historical figures, he concludes with his own original and challenging view of explanation. Ruben relates the concept of explanation to both epistemological and metaphysical issues. Not content to confine the concept to the realm of philosophy of science, he examines it within a far more broadly conceived theory of knowledge.
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
Getting our Bearings......Page 14
Plato on Explanation......Page 58
Aristotle on Explanation......Page 90
Mill and Hempel on Explanation......Page 123
The Ontology of Explanation......Page 168
Arguments, Laws, and Explanation......Page 194
A Realist Theory of Explanation......Page 222
Notes......Page 247
Bibliography......Page 269
Name Index......Page 275
Subject Index......Page 277
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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.
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