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The nature of scientific explanation

Dougherty, Jude P., 1930-

The nature of scientific explanation [electronic resource] / Jude P. Dougherty. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (xviii, 122 p. )

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-118) and index.

Lecture one: historical context: what is at stake -- Lecture two: induction: the perennial value of the Aristotelian perspective -- Lecture three: the principle of substance -- Lecture four: potentiality uncovered -- Lecture five: the principle of final causality -- Lecture six: use and abuse of analogy and metaphor in scientific explanation -- Lecture seven: science and the shaping of modernity: the reciprocal influence of science and culture.

9780813220222 081322022X


Knowledge, Theory of.
Science--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

Q175.3 / .D68 2013

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