Explaining Explanation: Essays in the Philosophy of the Special Sciences

Lanham, Maryland: Upa (2012)
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This book is a collection of Lee McIntyre’s philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. Explaining Explanation focuses on the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry, but also covers more general problems such as underdetermination, explanatory exclusion, the accommodation-prediction debate, and laws in biological science

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B63.M44 2012

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9780761858690   0761858695

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