The structure of science: problems in the logic of scientific explanation
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 618 S. |
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Autor: Nagel, Ernest
Jahr: 1971
Contents
Preface vii
1. Introduction: Science and Common Sense i
2. Patterns of Scientific Explanation 15
Illustrations of Scientific Explanation 15
Four Types of Explanation 20
Do the Sciences Explain? 26
3. The Deductive Pattern of Explanation 29
Explanations of Individual Events 30
Explanations of Laws 33
Generality in Explanations 37
Epistemic Requirements for Explanations 42
4. The Logical Character of Scientific Laws 47
Accidental and Nomic Universality 49
Are Laws Logically Necessary? 52
The Nature of Nomic Universality 56
Contrary-to-fact Universali 68
Causal Laws 73
5. Experimental Laws and Theories 79
Grounds for the Distinction 81
Three Major Components in Theories 90
Rules of Correspondence 97
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xii Contents
6. The Cognitive Status of Theories 106
The Role of Analogy 107
The Descriptive View of Theories 117
The Instrumentalist View of Theories 129
The Realist View of Theories 141
7. Mechanical Explanations and the Science
of Mechanics 153
What Is a Mechanical Explanation? 153
The Logical Status of the Science of Mechanics 174
8. Space and Geometry 203
The Newtonian Solution 203
Pure and Applied Geometry 215
9. Geometry and Physics 234
Alternative Geometries and Their Interrelations 235
The Choice of Geometry 253
Geometry and Relativity Theory 267
10. Causality and Indeterminism in Physical
Theory 277
The Deterministic Structure of Classical Mechanics 278
Alternative Descriptions of Physical State 285
The Language of Quantum Mechanics 293
The Indeterminism of Quantum Theory 305
The Principle of Causality 316
Chance and Indeterminism 324
11. The Reduction of Theories 336
The Reduction of Thermodynamics to Statistical
Mechanics 338
Formal Conditions for Reduction 345
Nonformal Conditions for Reduction 358
The Doctrine of Emergence 366
Wholes, Sums, and Organic Unities 380
Contents xiii
12. Mechanistic Explanation and Organismic
Biology 398
The Structure of Teleological Explanations 401
The Standpoint of Organismic Biology 428
13. Methodological Problems of the Social
Sciences 447
Forms of Controlled Inquiry 450
Cultural Relativity and Social Laws 459
Knowledge of Social Phenomena as a Social Variable 466
The Subjective Nature of Social Subject Matter 473
The Value-Oriented Bias of Social Inquiry 485
14. Explanation and Understanding in the
Social Sciences 503
Statistical Generalizations and Their Explanations 503
Functionalism in Social Science 520
Methodological Individualism and Interpretative Social
Science 535
15. Problems in the Logic of Historical Inquiry 547
The Central Focus of Historical Study 547
Probabilistic and Genetic Explanations 551
Recurrent Issues in Historical Inquiry 576
Determinism in History 592
Index 607
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