Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Explanation—Opening Address
- Explanation in Psychology
- Explanation in Biology
- Explanation in Social Sciences
- Explanation in Physics
- The Limits of Explanation
- Supervenience and Singular Causal Claims
- Contrastive Explanations
- How to Put Questions to Nature
- Explanation and Scientific Realism
- How Do Scientific Explanations Explain?
- Index
Explanation in Physics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Explanation—Opening Address
- Explanation in Psychology
- Explanation in Biology
- Explanation in Social Sciences
- Explanation in Physics
- The Limits of Explanation
- Supervenience and Singular Causal Claims
- Contrastive Explanations
- How to Put Questions to Nature
- Explanation and Scientific Realism
- How Do Scientific Explanations Explain?
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991