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Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Volume 252, 2007, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5581-2

RETHINKING EXPLANATION

JOHANNES PERSSON and PETRI YLIKOSKI

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I-XIV
Front matter
3-128
PART 1 / THEORY OF EXPLANATION
3-128
Front matter
3-11
EXPLANATIONS ARE ABOUT CONCEPTS AND CONCEPT FORMATION
13-26
WHAT TO ASK OF AN EXPLANATION-THEORY
27-42
THE IDEA OF CONTRASTIVE EXPLANANDUM
43-68
THE PRAGMATIC-RHETORICAL THEORY OF EXPLANATION
69-92
CAUSAL EXPLANATION PROVIDES KNOWLEDGE WHY
93-107
CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND MANIPULATION
109-118
ASSESSING THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS
119-128
SOME NOTES ON UNIFICATIONISM AND PROBABILISTIC EXPLANATION
131-203
PART 2 / ISSUES IN EXPLANATION
131-203
Front matter
131-136
SELECTION AND EXPLANATION
137-147
IBE AND EBI
On explanation before inference
149-162
EXPLAINING WITH EQUILIBRIA⁶⁸
163-175
EXPLANATION AND ENVIRONMENT
The case of psychology
177-192
BIOLOGICAL NOTIONS OF INNATENESS AND EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
193-203
ASPECT KINDS
205-219
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Title

RETHINKING EXPLANATION

Editors

JOHANNES PERSSON(1)
PETRI YLIKOSKI(2)

Editor Affiliations

Lund University, Sweden
University of Helsinki, Finland

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Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

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2007

DOI

10.1007/978-1-4020-5581-2

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978-1-4020-5580-5 (Print) 978-1-4020-5581-2 (Online)

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Springer Netherlands

SpringerLink Date

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

About This Book Series

Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Coverage: Volume 129 / 1991 - Volume 291 / 2012
Collection: Not Assigned
Subjects: None Assigned
ISSN: 0068-0346 (Print)
SpringerLink Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006

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