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Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2008)
Abstract
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.Author's Profile
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BD541.S77 2008
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9780674031838 0674031830 0674062574
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