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Wang, Wei

 
9780367522902: Explanation, Laws, and Causation
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ISBN 10: 036752290X ISBN 13: 9780367522902
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

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Scientific explanation, laws of nature, and causation are crucial and frontier issues in the philosophy of science. This book studies the complex relationship between the three concepts, aiming to achieve a holistic synthesis about explanation–laws–causation.

By reviewing Hempel's scientific explanation models and Salmon's three conceptions – the epistemic, modal, and ontic conception – the book suggests that laws are essential to explanation and that our understanding of laws will help solve the problems of the latter. Concerning the nature of laws, this book tackles both the problems of regularity approach and necessitarian approach. It also proposes that the ontological order of explanation should be from events (or processes) to causation, then to regularity (laws), and finally to science system, but the epistemological order should be from science system to laws to explanation and causation. In addition, this book examines the legitimacy of ceteris paribus laws, the connection between explanation and reduction, the relation between explanation and interpretation, and some other issues closely related to explanation–laws–causation. This book will attract scholars and students of philosophy of science, natural sciences, social sciences, etc.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Wei Wang is a professor at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University. His research interests include general philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and philosophy of biology.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
036752290X
ISBN 13 
9780367522902
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
128
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ISBN 10:  1138845833 ISBN 13:  9781138845831
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2017
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