Scientific Explanation

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Studdert-Kennedy, Gerald, Evidence and Explanation in Social Science. ... Kauffman, Stuart, "Articulation of Parts Explanation in Biology and the Rational ...

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Capacities and abstractions.  (pages 13--349)Nancy Cartwright
Explanation and metaphysical controversy.  (pages 13--220)Peter Railton
Explanation: in search of the rationale.  (pages 13--253)Matti Sintonen
Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world.  (pages 410-505)Philip Kitcher
Scientific understanding and the causal structure of the world.  (pages 410--505)P. Kitcher

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