Fred Wilson

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Explanation, Causation and Deduction (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1985)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1985, 26 September 2011

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Part of Series
The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science
Part of Series
Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
Print Length
400 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
26 Sep 2011
ISBN-10
9401088187
ISBN-13
9789401088183

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Fred Wilson
Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1985
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
26 September 2011
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.13 cm
ISBN-10:
9401088187
ISBN-13:
9789401088183
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
400
Publisher:
Weight:
544.31 gm

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