The nature of scientific explanation
By: Jude P. Dougherty
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780813220130; 9780813220147
Subjects: Science; Philosophy; Theory of Knowledge
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lecture one: historical context: what is at stake; title: Lecture two: induction: the perennial value of the Aristotelian perspective; title: Lecture three: the principle of substance; title: Lecture four: potentiality uncovered; title: Lecture five: the principle of final causality; title: Lecture six: use and abuse of analogy and metaphor in scientific explanation; title: Lecture seven: science and the shaping of modernity: the reciprocal influence of science and culture.