The Nature of Explanation

by Peter Achinstein

Book Overview

Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself. From that act, a "product" emerges: an explanation. To understand what that product is, as well as how it can be evaluated in the sciences, reference must be made to the concept of the explaining act. Following an account of the explaining act, its product, and the evaluation of explanations, the theory is brought to bear on these issues: Why...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019503743X
• ISBN13: 9780195037432
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"