Looking for ultimate explanations in the wrong place
Metascience (2011)
| Abstract | Review of Michael Heller, Ultimate Explanations of the Cosmos, Springer, 2009 | |||||||||
| Keywords | Review | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
  |
| External links |
|
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesRichard C. Francis (1990). Causes, Proximate and Ultimate. Biology and Philosophy 5 (4):401-415.
Jonathan Schaffer (2010). Monism: The Priority of the Whole. Philosophical Review 119 (1):31-76.
David Haig (forthcoming). Proximate and Ultimate Causes: How Come? And What For? Biology and Philosophy:1-6.
Adam Swiezynski (2010). Ultimate Explanations of the Universe. By Michael Heller. Zygon 45 (2):524-525.
André Ariew (2003). Ernst Mayr's 'Ultimate/Proximate' Distinction Reconsidered and Reconstructed. Biology and Philosophy 18 (4).
Francisco J. Ayala (1970). Teleological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology. Philosophy of Science 37 (1):1-15.
Alan Chalmers (1995). Ultimate Explanations in Science: A Historical Perspective. Cogito 9 (2):141-145.
Matthew W. McKeon (forthcoming). On the Rationale for Distinguishing Arguments From Explanations. Argumentation:1-21.
Erik Weber, Jeroen Van Bouwel & Merel Lefevere (2012). The Role of Unification in Explanations of Facts. In Henk de Regt, Samir Okasha & Stephan Hartmann (eds.), EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009. Springer.
Michael V. Antony (forthcoming). Can We Acquire Knowledge of Ultimate Reality? In Jeanine Diller & Asa Kasher (eds.), Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities. Springer.
Todd A. Grantham & Shaun Nichols (1999). Evolutionary Psychology: Ultimate Explanations and Panglossian Predictions. In Valerie Gray Hardcastle (ed.), Where Biology Meets Psychology. MIT Press.
John S. Brunero (2002). Evolution, Altruism and "Internal Reward" Explanations. Philosophical Forum 33 (4):413–424.
Michael Martin (1968). Situational Logic and Covering Law Explanations in History. Inquiry 11 (1-4):388 – 399.
Moti Mizrahi (2012). Why the Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism Ultimately Fails. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (1):132-138.
David Pineda (2011). Non-Committal Causal Explanations. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2):147-170.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-01-14Total downloads61 ( #15,488 of 548,984 )Recent downloads (6 months)23 ( #2,194 of 548,984 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
