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Depth : an account of scientific explanation
- Title
- Depth : an account of scientific explanation / Michael Strevens.
- Author
- Strevens, Michael.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 516 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-503) and index.
- Contents
- Approaches to explanation -- Causal and explanatory relevance -- The kairetic account of difference-making -- The kairetic account of explanation -- Extending the kairetic account -- Event explanation and causal claims -- Regularity explanation -- Abstraction in regularity explanation -- Approaches to probabilistic explanation -- Kairetic explanation of frequencies -- Kairetic explanation of single outcomes -- Looking outward -- Looking inward.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-808
- ISBN
- 9780674031838 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0674031830 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008019211
- OCLC
- 227327764
- Author
- Strevens, Michael.
- Title
- Depth : an account of scientific explanation / Michael Strevens.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-503) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-808