Explanation Laws And Causation

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Explanation Laws And Causation

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Author : Wei Wang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-04-21

Explanation Laws And Causation written by Wei Wang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-21 with Philosophy categories.

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.

Causation And Explanation

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Author : Stathis Psillos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18

Causation And Explanation written by Stathis Psillos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Philosophy categories.

What is the nature of causation? How is causation linked with explanation? And can there be an adequate theory of explanation? These questions and many others are addressed in this unified and rigorous examination of the philosophical problems surrounding causation, laws and explanation. Part 1 of this book explores Hume's views on causation, theories of singular causation, and counterfactual and mechanistic approaches. Part 2 considers the regularity view of laws and laws as relations among universals, as well as recent alternative approaches to laws. Part 3 examines the issues arising from deductive-nomological explanation, statistical explanation, the explanation of laws and the metaphysics of explanation. Accessible to readers of all levels, this book provides an excellent introduction to one of the most enduring problems of philosophy.

Explanation Causation And Deduction

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Author : Fred Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Explanation Causation And Deduction written by Fred Wilson and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.

The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has traditionally been thought that scientific explanations were causal and that scientific explanations involved deduction from laws. In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations that are not scientific, scientific explanations that are not deductive, deductions from laws that are neither causal explanations nor scientific explanations, and causal explanations that involve no deductions from laws. The aim of the present essay is to defend the traditional identities, and to show that the more recent attempts at invalidating them fail in their object. More specifically, this essay argues that a Humean version of the deductive-nomological model of explanation can be defended as (1) the correct account of scientific explanation of individual facts and processes, and as (2) the correct account of causal explanations of individual facts and processes. The deductive-nomological model holds that to explain an event E, say that a is G, one must find some initial conditions C, say that a is F, and a law or theory T such that T and C jointly entail E, and both are essential to the deduction.

Analysis Of Mr Mill S System Of Logic By W Stebbing Etc

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Author : John Stuart Mill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864

Analysis Of Mr Mill S System Of Logic By W Stebbing Etc written by John Stuart Mill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with categories.

Explanation Causation And Psychological Theories

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Author : Dick Ruimschotel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Explanation Causation And Psychological Theories written by Dick Ruimschotel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Causation categories.

A System Of Logic Ratiocinative And Inductive

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Author : John Stuart Mill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874

A System Of Logic Ratiocinative And Inductive written by John Stuart Mill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.

Analysis Of Mr Mill S System Of Logic

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Author : William Stebbing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864

Analysis Of Mr Mill S System Of Logic written by William Stebbing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with Logic categories.

Analysis Of Mill S System Of Logic

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Author : William Stebbing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873

Analysis Of Mill S System Of Logic written by William Stebbing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Logic categories.

Pure Logic And Other Minor Works Ed By R Adamson And H A Jevons

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Author : William Stanley Jevons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890

Pure Logic And Other Minor Works Ed By R Adamson And H A Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with categories.

Explaining Causation

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Author : Richard D. Schoonhoven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Explaining Causation written by Richard D. Schoonhoven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Causation categories.