Explanations: styles of explanation in science
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004
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What good is an explanation? / Peter Lipton -- Can science explain everything? Can science explain anything? / Steven Weinberg -- Explaining the universe / Martin Rees -- Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? / William C. Saslaw -- Mathematical explanation / John D. Barrow -- Ponderable matter : explanation in chemistry / Peter Atkins -- The biology of the future and the future of biology / Steven Rose -- Teleology : the explanation that bedevils biology / David Hanke -- What is it not like to be a brain? / Colin McGinn -- Ontology and scientific explanation / Tian Yu Cao -- From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology / Jack Goody -- Passing it on : redescribing scientific explanation / Jon Turney
Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of 'explanation' and its scope and limits pervades popular exposition of the natural sciences, popular history and philosophy of science. This fascinating and intriguing book explores the wayexplanations work, why they vary between disciplines, periods, and cultures, and whether they have any necessary boundaries
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 238 pages)
ISBN:0191547336
0198607784
9780191547331
9780198607786

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