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Paperback. Condition: New. Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world - to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?In this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:the background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first placeempiricism about explanation: Hempel's deductive-nomological model and its problemsunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall 'explanatory store'?causation and explanation: Lewis's description-based model, Woodward's interventionist view and Strevens's criterion of selection theoryconnections between explanation and understandingmodels, idealization and explanationnon-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contextsthe nature of understanding.Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.…

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Condition: New. Arnon Levy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He holds a PhD in philosophy and an MA in biology, both from Harvard University. His work covers explanation and understanding in science, the nature of.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Explanation and Understanding | Arnon Levy | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | Routledge | EAN 9781138700444 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, 80331 München, gpsr[at]taylorandfrancis[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world - to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?In this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:the background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first placeempiricism about explanation: Hempel's deductive-nomological model and its problemsunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall 'explanatory store'?causation and explanation: Lewis's description-based model, Woodward's interventionist view and Strevens's criterion of selection theoryconnections between explanation and understandingmodels, idealization and explanationnon-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contextsthe nature of understanding.Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world - to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?In this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:the background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first placeempiricism about explanation: Hempel's deductive-nomological model and its problemsunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall 'explanatory store'?causation and explanation: Lewis's description-based model, Woodward's interventionist view and Strevens's criterion of selection theoryconnections between explanation and understandingmodels, idealization and explanationnon-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contextsthe nature of understanding.Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.…