A Dialogue on Explanation
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 place on Cape Sounion, near Athens where the two interlocutors enjoy the view over the Aegean Sea. An initial exchange of arguments leads to a dialogue that unfolds the panorama of the contemporary philosophical theory of explanation. The second part of the dialogue details an exchange of arguments on explanatory pluralism as a novel approach to th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-05833-3
- EAN: 9783030058333
- Produktnummer: 29469035
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 56 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.4 cm 119 g
- Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
- Gewicht: 119
Über den Autor
C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Athens. He is the author of Wettbewerbstheorie (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994), Individuals, Institutions, and Markets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals in four languages, notably Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance in Perspectives on Politics, 2004 (with Douglass North and Syed Shariq) and Explanatory Games, in The Journal of Philosophy, 2013. He is the Philosophy Section Editor of the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, which was published in 2015. Before his current appointment in Athens, he held the Chair of Economics and Philosophy at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (2004-2011). He has also taught at Freiburg, Bayreuth, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford (2000-2001). He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (2001-2004) and served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard (twice), at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (twice) and at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He holds two PhDs, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen.
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