Explanations : styles of explanation in science /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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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.