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  title info:
    title: Scientific Explanation
  name:
    name part: Weber, Erik.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Van Bouwel, Jeroen.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: De Vreese, Leen.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 93 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: When scientist investigate why things happen, they aim at giving an explanation. But what does a scientific explanation look like? In the first chapter (Theories of Scientific Explanation) of this book, the milestones in the debate on how to characterize scientific explanations are exposed. The second chapter (How to Study Scientific Explanation?) scrutinizes the working-method of three important philosophers of explanation, Carl Hempel, Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon and shows what went wrong. Next, it is the responsibility of current philosophers of explanation to go on where Hempel, Kitcher and Salmon failed. However, we should go on in a clever way. We call this clever way the pragmatic approach to scientific explanation and clarify briefly what this approach consists in. The third chapter (A Toolbox for Describing and Evaluating Explanatory Practices) elaborates the pragmatic approach by presenting a toolbox for analysing scientific explanation. In the last chapter (Examples of Descriptions and Evaluations of Explanatory Practices) the approach is illustrated with real-life examples of scientists aiming at explaining. This book can be used as a textbook for intermediate philosophy of science courses and is also valuable as “suggested reading” for introductory courses in philosophy of science. The way the book is set up makes it an excellent study and research guide for advanced (MA and PhD) students that work on the topic of scientific explanation. Finally, it is a handy source and reference book for senior researchers in the field of scientific explanations and – more generally – for all philosophers of science. .
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Theories of Scientific Explanation -- Chapter 2. How to study Scientific Explanation? -- Chapter 3. A Toolbox for Describing and Evaluating Explanatory Practices -- Chapter 4. Examples of Descriptions and Evaluations of Explanatory Practices.
  note: by Erik Weber, Jeroen Van Bouwel, Leen De Vreese.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
  identifier: 9789400764460
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6446-0
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    record creation date: 130503
    record change date: 20151204165118.0
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