What functions explain: functional explanation and self-reproducing systems

What Functions Explain: Functional Expla

📁 What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

✍ Peter McLaughlin 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy o

What Functions Explain: Functional Expla

📁 What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

✍ Peter McLaughlin 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy o

Explaining Explanation

📁 Explaining Explanation

✍ David-Hillel Ruben 📂 Library 📅 1992 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

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

Explaining explanation

📁 Explaining explanation

✍ Ruben, David-Hillel 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

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.

Explaining explanation

📁 Explaining explanation

✍ Ruben, David-Hillel 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Routledge, Taylor & Francis e-Library 🌐 English

Explaining Explanation

📁 Explaining Explanation

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