Scientific explanation
Subtitle: papers based on Herbert Spencer lectures given in the University of Oxford
By: edited by A.F. Heath.
Contributors: Heath, A. F.
Series: Herbert Spencer lecture
Publisher: Clarendon
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Thematic presuppositions and the direction of scientific advance / Gerald Holton; value: The nature of the "ultimate" explanation in physics / Abdus Salam; value: Rationality in science / Henry Harris; value: True believers : the intentional strategy and why it works / Daniel C. Dennett; value: Non-corporeal explanation in psychology / Donald E. Broadbent; value: Philosophers and human understanding / H. Putnam.