The nature and norms of scientific explanation: some preliminaries

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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 74:5–17 (2023)
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The paper introduces a special issue of the journal Philosophical Problems in Science (ZFN) on the topic of the nature and norms of scientific explanation.

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10.59203/zfn.74.690

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