Wang | Explanation, Laws, and Causation | Buch | 978-1-138-84583-1 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 144 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: China Perspectives

Wang

Explanation, Laws, and Causation


1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-84583-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 144 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: China Perspectives

ISBN: 978-1-138-84583-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd


Scientific explanation, laws of nature, and causation are crucial and frontier issues in the philosophy of science. This book studies the complex relationship between the three concepts, aiming to achieve a holistic synthesis about explanation–laws–causation.

By reviewing Hempel's scientific explanation models and Salmon's three conceptions – the epistemic, modal, and ontic conception – the book suggests that laws are essential to explanation and that our understanding of laws will help solve the problems of the latter. Concerning the nature of laws, this book tackles both the problems of regularity approach and necessitarian approach. It also proposes that the ontological order of explanation should be from events (or processes) to causation, then to regularity (laws), and finally to science system, but the epistemological order should be from science system to laws to explanation and causation. In addition, this book examines the legitimacy of ceteris paribus laws, the connection between explanation and reduction, the relation between explanation and interpretation, and some other issues closely related to explanation–laws–causation. This book will attract scholars and students of philosophy of science, natural sciences, social sciences, etc.

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Preface for the English version

Preface for the Chinese version

1 Hempel’s scientific explanation models and their problems

2 Six decades of scientific explanation

3 The very nature of laws of nature

4 The conceptions of scientific explanation and approaches to laws of nature

5 Causal mechanism and lawful explanation

6 Is there such a thing as a ceteris paribus law?

7 Explanation and reduction

8 Scientific explanation and historical interpretation

9 Synthesis: explanation, laws, and causation

Bibliography

Index


Wei Wang is a professor at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University. His research interests include general philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and philosophy of biology.



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