Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science
Our lives, states of health, relationships, behavior, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of explanation and its scope and limits pervades popular exposition of the natural sciences, popular history and philosophy of science. This fascinating book explores the way explanations work, why they vary between disciplines, periods, and cultures, and whether they have any necessary boundaries. In other words, Explanations aims to achieve a better understanding…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-860778-6
- EAN: 9780198607786
- Produktnummer: 22671287
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.7 cm x D3.2 cm 582 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 582
Über den Autor
John Cornwell is an author and journalist, and Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is the editor of two previous collections, also published by OUP: Nature's Imagination (1994) and Consciousness and Human Identity (1998).
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