{"product_id":"9781138700444-explanation-and-understanding","title":"Explanation and Understanding","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation is an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world – to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eempiricism about explanation: Hempel’s deductive-nomological model and its problems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall ‘explanatory store’?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecausation and explanation: Lewis’s description-based model, Woodward’s interventionist view and Strevens’s criterion of selection theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econnections between explanation and understanding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emodels, idealization and explanation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enon-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contexts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe nature of understanding.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdditional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55793156030838,"sku":"9781138700444","price":49.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34960233.jpg?v=1750911970","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781138700444-explanation-and-understanding","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}