The Nature of Scientific Explanation
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Gewicht:
191 g
Format:
216x137x10 mm
Beschreibung:
Challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction. Dougherty argues that a philosophy of science is but a part of one's overarching metaphysical outlook, itself painstakingly derived from considerations of nature, law, intelligibility, causality, and inference. This book critically examines several well-known philosophical positions from a time-transcending Aristotelian point of view. It defends an Aristotelian or "realist” interpretation of science, employing the textual Aristotle as commented upon and amplified through the centuries.
In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction. Dougherty argues that a philosophy of science is but a part of ones overarching metaphysical outlook, itself painstakingly derived from considerations of nature, law, intelligibility, causality, and inference.