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Subtitle: an account of scientific explanation
By: Michael Strevens.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780674031838
Subjects: Causation; Explanation; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaches to explanation; title: Causal and explanatory relevance; title: The kairetic account of /D making; title: The kairetic account of explanation; title: Extending the kairetic account; title: Event explanation and causal claims; title: Regularity explanation; title: Abstraction in regularity explanation; title: Approaches to probabilistic explanation; title: Kairetic explanation of frequencies; title: Kairetic explanation of single outcomes; title: Looking outward; title: Looking inward.