The nature of scientific explanation /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture one: historical context: what is at stake
- Lecture two: induction: the perennial value of the Aristotelian perspective
- Lecture three: the principle of substance
- Lecture four: potentiality uncovered
- Lecture five: the principle of final causality
- Lecture six: use and abuse of analogy and metaphor in scientific explanation
- Lecture seven: science and the shaping of modernity: the reciprocal influence of science and culture.