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China Perspectives Ser.: Explanation, Laws, and Causation by Wei Wang (2017, Hardcover)

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Scientific explanation, laws of nature, and causation are crucial and frontier issues in the philosophy of science. This book studies the complex relationship between the three concepts, aiming to achieve a holistic synthesis about explanation-laws-causation. By reviewing Hempel's scientific explanation models and Salmon's three conceptions - the epistemic, modal, and ontic conception - the book suggests that laws are essential to explanation and that our understanding of laws will help solve the problems of the latter. Concerning the nature of laws, this book tackles both the problems of regularity approach and necessitarian approach. It also proposes that the ontological order of explanation should be from events (or processes) to causation, then to regularity (laws), and finally to science system, but the epistemological order should be from science system to laws to explanation and causation. In addition, this book examines the legitimacy of ceteris paribus laws, the connection between explanation and reduction, the relation between explanation and interpretation, and some other issues closely related to explanation-laws-causation. This book will attract scholars and students of philosophy of science, natural sciences, social sciences, etc.

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Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138845833
ISBN-13
9781138845831
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219601922

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Author
Wei Wang
Publication Name
Explanation, Laws, and Causation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
China Perspectives Ser.
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
114 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Q175
Table of Content
Preface for the English version Preface for the Chinese version 1 Hempel's scientific explanation models and their problems 2 Six decades of scientific explanation 3 The very nature of laws of nature 4 The conceptions of scientific explanation and approaches to laws of nature 5 Causal mechanism and lawful explanation 6 Is there such a thing as a ceteris paribus law? 7 Explanation and reduction 8 Scientific explanation and historical interpretation 9 Synthesis: explanation, laws, and causation Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Logic
Lccn
2017-000619
Dewey Decimal
501
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Science, Philosophy

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