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Approaches to explanation -- Causal and explanatory relevance -- The kairetic account of /D making -- The kairetic account of explanation -- Extending the kairetic account -- Event explanation and causal claims -- Regularity explanation -- Abstraction in regularity explanation -- Approaches to probabilistic explanation -- Kairetic explanation of frequencies -- Kairetic explanation of single outcomes -- Looking outward -- Looking inward.
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Keywords | Causation Explanation Science Philosophy |
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Call number | BD541.S77 2008 |
ISBN(s) | 9780674031838 0674031830 0674062574 |
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