In this first-ever collection, one of the world's most prominent and prolific authors on the subject of unusual phenomena offers plausible explanations for curiosities once considered unexplainable-from prophecy and out-of-body experiences to ghosts, UFOs, and parallel universes. The author applies
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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 fig
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.
How does one explain the concept of 'explanation'? The attempts of Plato, Aristotle, Mill and Hempel are here examined, and the author provides his own solution to this question, both within philosophy of science and epistemology in general.</div>