The nature of scientific explanation [electronic resource] / Jude P. Dougherty.
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 122 p. )ISBN:- 9780813220222
- 081322022X
- 501 23
- Q175.3 .D68 2013
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.
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