Scientific explanation, space, and time; edited by Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell.
Material type:
TextSeries: ; vol. 3 | Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 3.Publication details: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [c1962]Description: xv, 628 p. 22 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Scientific explanation, space, and time.DDC classification: - ARCH YNDC 501 F297S V3
Contents:
The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell. -- Explanation, reduction, and empiricism / P.K. Feyerabend. -- Deductive-nomological vs. statistical explanation / Carl G. Hempel. -- Explanations, predictions and laws / Michael Scriven. -- Explanation, prediction, and "imperfect" knowledge / May Brodbeck. -- The factual content of theoretical concepts / William W. Rozeboom. -- The analytic and the synthetic / Hilary Putnam. -- The necessary and the contingent / Grover Maxwell. -- Geometry, chronometry and empiricism / Adolf Grünbaum. -- Time and the world order / Wilfrid Sellars.
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The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell. -- Explanation, reduction, and empiricism / P.K. Feyerabend. -- Deductive-nomological vs. statistical explanation / Carl G. Hempel. -- Explanations, predictions and laws / Michael Scriven. -- Explanation, prediction, and "imperfect" knowledge / May Brodbeck. -- The factual content of theoretical concepts / William W. Rozeboom. -- The analytic and the synthetic / Hilary Putnam. -- The necessary and the contingent / Grover Maxwell. -- Geometry, chronometry and empiricism / Adolf Grünbaum. -- Time and the world order / Wilfrid Sellars.
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