Explanations : styles of explanation in science /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cornwell, John, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • What good is an explanation? / Peter Lipton
  • Can science explain everything? Can science explain anything? / Steven Weinberg
  • Explaining the universe / Martin Rees
  • Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? / William C. Saslaw
  • Mathematical explanation / John D. Barrow
  • Ponderable matter : explanation in chemistry / Peter Atkins
  • The biology of the future and the future of biology / Steven Rose
  • Teleology : the explanation that bedevils biology / David Hanke
  • What is it not like to be a brain? / Colin McGinn
  • Ontology and scientific explanation / Tian Yu Cao
  • From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology / Jack Goody
  • Passing it on : redescribing scientific explanation / Jon Turney.