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Titolo:Explanation, law and cause / edited with an introduction by Lawrence Sklar.
Descrizione fisica:XI, 384 p.  
Contiene:Indice: Introduction. Pt. 1. Explanatory models: 1. Studies in the logic of explanation / Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim 2. The pragmatics of explanation / Bas C. van Fraassen 3. Explanatory unification / Philip Kitcher 4. Explanation and scientific understanding / Michael Friedman 5. Causal explanation / David Lewis 6. Theoretical explanation / Wesley C. Salmon. Pt. 2. Statistical explanation: 1. A deductive nomological model of probabilistic explanation / Peter Railton 2. Statistical explanation and its models / Wesley C. Salmon. Pt. 3. Laws of nature: 1. What is a law of nature / A.J. Ayer 2. Law statements and counterfactual inference / Roderick M. Chisholm 3. The problem of counterfactual conditionals / Nelson Goodman 4. The metalinguistic theory: laws of nature / David K. Lewis 5. The nature of laws / Michael Tooley 6. Fundamentalism vs. the patchwork of laws / Nancy Cartwright. Pt. 4. Casuses and causation: 1. Causes and conditions / J.L. Mackie 2. Causation, nomic subsumption and the concept of event / Jaegwon Kim 3. Causal relations / Donald Davidson 4. Causation / David Lewis 5. Probabilistic causal interaction / Ellery Eells. Acknowledgments
ISBN:0815327005
In:Philosophy of science.  New York : Garland, 2000.    1
Altri autori:Sklar, Lawrence.
Hempel, Carl Gustav, 1905-1997.
Oppenheim, Paul, n. 1863.
Fraassen, Bas C. van, 1941-
Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
Friedman, Michael, 1947-
Lewis, David K., 1941-2001.
Salmon, Wesley C., 1925-
Railton, Peter.
Ayer, Alfred Jules, 1910-1989.
Chisholm, Roderick M.
Goodman, Nelson, 1906-1998.
Tooley, Michael, 1941-
Cartwright, Nancy.
Mackie, John Leslie.
Kim, Jaegwon.
Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.
Eells, Ellery.
Collocazione:LS 11901
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