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The Devil in the Details - Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence
Dr, Batterman, Robert W.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University
Print publication date: 2001 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514647-9
doi:10.1093/0195146476.003.0003
3 Philosophical Theories of Explanation
Robert W. Batterman
This chapter discusses in detail a distinction between types of why-questions. It considers Hempelian models of explanation and their successors and argues that neither causal mechanical models nor unification models can adequately provide explanations of universal behavior.
Keywords:
deductive-nomological explanation
,
explanation
,
explanatory unification
,
inductive-statistical explanation
,
nomological
,
why-questions
doi:10.1093/0195146476.003.0003
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Contents
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1 Introduction
2 Asymptotic Reasoning
3 Philosophical Theories of Explanation
4 Asymptotic Explanation
5 Philosophical Models of Reduction
6 Intertheoretic Relations—Optics
7 Intertheoretic Relations—Mechanics
8 Emergence
9 Conclusions
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