Name: Explanation, Causation and Deduction (en Inglés)
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Author: Wilson, Fred
ISBN: 9789401088183

portada Explanation, Causation and Deduction (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Fred Wilson

Editorial

Springer

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

400

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm

Peso

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9789401088183

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología
Lógica

Explanation, Causation and Deduction (en Inglés)

Fred Wilson (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Explanation, Causation and Deduction (en Inglés)"

The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has traditionally been thought that scientific explanations were causal and that scientific explanations involved deduction from laws. In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations that are not scientific, scientific explanations that are not deductive, deductions from laws that are neither causal explanations nor scientific explanations, and causal explanations that involve no deductions from laws. The aim of the present essay is to defend the traditional identities, and to show that the more recent attempts at invalidating them fail in their object. More specifically, this essay argues that a Humean version of the deductive-nomological model of explanation can be defended as (1) the correct account of scientific explanation of individual facts and processes, and as (2) the correct account of causal explanations of individual facts and processes. The deductive-nomological model holds that to explain an event E, say that a is G, one must find some initial conditions C, say that a is F, and a law or theory T such that T and C jointly entail E, and both are essential to the deduction.