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Explanations : styles of explanation in science
- Title
- Explanations : styles of explanation in science / edited by John Cornwell.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cornwell, John, 1940-
- Description
- xxv, 238 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Explanation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 04-903
- ISBN
- 0198607784
- OCLC
- 53156390
- Title
- Explanations : styles of explanation in science / edited by John Cornwell.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Cornwell, John, 1940-
- Research Call Number
- JSE 04-903