The context of explanation
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The context of explanation
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 149)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1993
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Note
Bibliography: p. 148-154
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science. Bunzl argues that any successful account of explanation must deal with two very different contexts - one static and one dynamic. Traditionally, theories of explanation have been built for the former of these two contexts. That is to say, they are designed to show how it is that a "finished" body of scientific knowledge can be put to explanatory use. Real "explanation" also occurs in a dynamical context in which questions are asked and answers are given as theories are in the process of being constructed. In this book, Bunzl argues that attending to explanation produced under these dynamic circumstances undermines prominent features of the theory of explanation produced in the traditional static context.
Table of Contents
- The deductive-nomological model briefly revisited
- causal conception and causal connection
- identity and unification
- pragmatics
- statics and dynamics
- supervenience and reductionism
- laws
- interpretation
- causal factuals.
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