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  title info:
    title: Rules to infinity
    sub title: the normative role of mathematics in scientific explanation
  name:
    name part: Povich, Mark
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "A simplistic and Whiggish history of the philosophy of scientific explanation, modeled after a terribly stripped-down reading of Salmon's (1989) Four Decades, might go as follows: In the beginning was Hempel, with whose covering law (CL) model of explanation the main problems in the philosophy of explanation were thought, for the most part, to have been solved. There was peace in the land... for a while. Then came mumblings of discontent. For, most of the problems that faced the CL model resulted, many thought, from its inability to account for the central role of causation in scientific explanation. Mumblings magnified into roars and the CL model was burst asunder. A new account of scientific explanation - the causal-mechanical account (Salmon 1989) - gained hegemony, and peace and consensus returned. In the last couple of decades, mumblings of discontent have started again to arise: equilibrium explanations (Sober 1983, Rice 2015), optimality explanations (Rice 2012, 2015), renormalization group (RG) explanations (Batterman and Rice 2014), topological explanations (Huneman 2010, Kostić 2020, Kostić and Khalifa 2021) . How can the causal hegemony in the philosophy of explanation account for all these? The causal hegemony must give way to a new one, one that is either a more inclusive theory that covers both causal and non-causal explanation, or a principled explanatory pluralism"--
  table of contents: Cover -- Rules to Infinity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Scientific Explanation, Mathematics, and Metaontology -- 2. Distinctively Mathematical Explanation -- 3. Renormalization Group Explanation -- 4. The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account -- 5. Deflating the Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account -- 6. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Function -- 7. The Content of a Mathematical Model -- 8. Normativism and Its Rivals -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
  note: [Mark Povich].
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Religion and science
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion et sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathématiques
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: History & Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: MATHEMATICS
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Science: general issues
  subject:
    topic: Science
  classification: BL240.3 .P68 2024
  classification: 121/.4
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    title info:
      title: Rules to infinity
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      name part: Povich, Mark.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240708
    record change date: 20250425170031.8
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng