Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Explanation—Opening Address
- Explanation in Psychology
- Explanation in Biology
- Explanation in Social Sciences
- Explanation in Physics
- The Limits of Explanation
- Supervenience and Singular Causal Claims
- Contrastive Explanations
- How to Put Questions to Nature
- Explanation and Scientific Realism
- How Do Scientific Explanations Explain?
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Explanation—Opening Address
- Explanation in Psychology
- Explanation in Biology
- Explanation in Social Sciences
- Explanation in Physics
- The Limits of Explanation
- Supervenience and Singular Causal Claims
- Contrastive Explanations
- How to Put Questions to Nature
- Explanation and Scientific Realism
- How Do Scientific Explanations Explain?
- Index
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- Explanation and its Limits , pp. iii - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991