Explanation, Laws, and Causation

✍ Scribed by Wang, Wei

Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 127
Series: China Perspectives
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface for the English version Preface for the Chinese version 1 Hempel's scientific explanation models and their problems 2 Six decades of scientific explanation 3 The very nature of laws of nature 4 The conceptions of scientific explanation and approaches to laws of nature 5 Causal mechanism and lawful explanation 6 Is there such a thing as a ceteris paribus law? 7 Explanation and reduction 8 Scientific explanation and historical interpretation 9 Synthesis: explanation, laws, and causation Bibliography Index

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