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Explanations : styles of explanation in science / edited by John Cornwell

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford, University : C 2004Description: xxv, 238 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0198607784
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 501 C821E
LOC classification:
  • BD237 .E97 2004
Contents:
What good is an explanation? / Peter Lipton -- Can science explain everything? Can science explain anything? / Steven Weinberg -- Explaining the universe / Martin Rees -- Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? / William C. Saslaw -- Mathematical explanation / John D. Barrow -- Ponderable matter : explanation in chemistry / Peter Atkins -- The biology of the future and the future of biology / Steven Rose -- Teleology : the explanation that bedevils biology / David Hanke -- What is it not like to be a brain? / Colin McGinn -- Ontology and scientific explanation / Tian Yu Cao -- From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology / Jack Goody -- Passing it on : redescribing scientific explanation / Jon Turney
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 501 C821E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 065863

Includes bibliographical references and index

What good is an explanation? / Peter Lipton -- Can science explain everything? Can science explain anything? / Steven Weinberg -- Explaining the universe / Martin Rees -- Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? / William C. Saslaw -- Mathematical explanation / John D. Barrow -- Ponderable matter : explanation in chemistry / Peter Atkins -- The biology of the future and the future of biology / Steven Rose -- Teleology : the explanation that bedevils biology / David Hanke -- What is it not like to be a brain? / Colin McGinn -- Ontology and scientific explanation / Tian Yu Cao -- From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology / Jack Goody -- Passing it on : redescribing scientific explanation / Jon Turney

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