A Dialogue on Explanation

• Main Author: Mantzavinos, C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Science-Philosophy.; Science-History.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Analysis (Philosophy).; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Analytic Philosophy.

This book introduces a panorama of the philosophical theory of explanation. The author writes it as a philosophical dialogue between two interlocutors, Philip and a student. In the process of their talk, the two present a defense of the position of explanatory pluralism. The fictional dialogue takes...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I. On the Covering Law Model of Explanation
• Part II. On Explanation as Unification and other Models of Explanation
• Part II. On Explanatory Games
• Part IV. On Explanatory Progress
• Notes
• Bibliography.