Explanation and its limits / edited by Dudley Knowles.
| Other author | Knowles, Dudley. |
| Other author | Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Explanation and its Limits (1989 : University of Glasgow) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1990. |
| Description | viii, 318 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 27 Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 27. ^A475447 |
| Contents | Truth and teleology / David Papineau -- Functional support for anomalous monism / Jim Edwards -- Explanation in biology / John Maynard Smith - - Let's razor Ockhams's razor / Elliott Sober -- Singular explanation and the social sciences / David-Hillel Ruben -- Explanation and understanding in social science / John Skorupski -- Explanation / Michael Redhead -- Explanation in physical theory / Peter Clark -- The limits of explanation / Richard Swinburne -- Limited explanations / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Supervenience and singular causal claims / James Woodward -- Contrastive explanations / Peter Lipton -- How to put questions to nature / Matti Sintonen -- Explanation and scientific realism / Philip Gasper -- How do scientific explanations explain? / Joyce Kinoshita. |
| General note | "The papers collected in this volume were delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Explanation and its Limits in September 1989 at the University of Glasgow." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 90037622 |
| ISBN | 0521395984 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Q175 .E96 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |