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
 

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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