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Explaining Explanation

By David-Hillel Ruben

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1992
ISBN
9780415087650, 0415087651, 0203169301, 9780203169308, 9780203285732
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2349819 bytes)
Series
Problems of Philosophy
Edition
New edition
Pages
278\278
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

In Explaining Explanation, David-Hillel Ruben provides a non-technical discussion of some of the main historical attempts to explain the concept of explanation, examining the works of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Hempel. Building on and developing the insights of these historical figures, he concludes with his own original and challenging view of explanation. Ruben relates the concept of explanation to both epistemological and metaphysical issues. Not content to confine the concept to the realm of philosophy of science, he examines it within a far more broadly conceived theory of knowledge.

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