Explaining explanation

Author(s)

• Ruben, David-Hillel

Bibliographic Information

Explaining explanation

David-Hillel Ruben

（The problems of philosophy : their past and present）

Routledge, 1990

Note

Bibliography: p. 256-261

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Offering a discussion of some of the main historical attempts to explain the concept of explanation, this book examines the works of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Hempel. Building on and developing the insights of these historical figures, the author introduces an elaboration and defense of his own solution. Not content to confine the concept of explanation to the realm of philosophy of science, he examines it within a far more broadly conceived theory of knowledge, and concludes with his own original and challenging explanation of explanation.

Table of Contents

• Getting our Bearings
• Plato on Explanation
• Aristotle on Explanation
• Mill and Hempel on Explanation
• The Ontology of Explanation
• Arguments, Laws and Explanation
• A Realist Theory of Explanation.

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Details

• NCID: BA10982855
• ISBN:
  • 0415032695
• LCCN: 91100577
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 265 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 160
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Explanation
  • LCSH : Explanation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00318590