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Explanatory Pluralism

Product Description: Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory games'...read more

By C. Mantzavinos

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9781107128514 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 9, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage.

Modes of Explanation: Affordances for Action and Prediction

By Abraham Graber (editor)

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9781137406453 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 17, 2014, cover price $120.00

Rethinking Explanation

Product Description: The nature of scientific explanation has been an important topic in philosophy of science for many years. This book highlights some of the conceptual problems that still need to be solved and points out a number of fresh philosophical ideas to explore.

By Johannes Persson (editor) and Petri Ylikoski (editor)

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9781402055805 | Springer Verlag, April 3, 2007, cover price $239.00

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9789400787087 | Springer Verlag, November 23, 2014, cover price $239.00 | About this edition: The nature of scientific explanation has been an important topic in philosophy of science for many years.

Reasons As Defaults

By John F. Horty

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9780199744077 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 25, 2012, cover price $73.00

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9780199396443 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2014), cover price $31.95

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works; Library Edition

Product Description: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity...read more

By Ann Marie Lee (narrator)

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9781452649146, titled "This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 5, 2014), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

By Ann Marie Lee (narrator)

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9781452619149 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 5, 2014), cover price $42.99 | About this edition: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.

9781452669144 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 5, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.

Explanation, Causation and Deduction

Product Description: The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has traditionally been thought that scientific explanations were causal and that scientific explanations involved deduction from laws...read more

By Fred Wilson

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9789027718563 | D Reidel Pub Co, July 1, 1985, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it.

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9789401088183 | Springer Verlag, September 26, 2011, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it.

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

By John Brockman (editor)

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9780062230171 | Perennial, January 22, 2013, cover price $15.99

Explaining Explanation

Product Description: This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light of the extensive reviews the first edition received...read more

By David-Hillel Ruben

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9781612050676 | 2 exp upd edition (Paradigm Pub, December 30, 2011), cover price $123.95

9780415032698 | Routledge, November 1, 1990, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Offering a discussion of some of the main historical attempts to explain the concept of explanation, this book examines the works of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Hempel.

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9781612050683 | 2 upd exp edition (Paradigm Pub, August 31, 2012), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light of the extensive reviews the first edition received.

9780415087650 | Routledge, November 1, 1992, cover price $44.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203169308 | Routledge, January 14, 2004, cover price $36.95

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

By David Deutsch

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9780670022755 | Viking Pr, July 21, 2011, cover price $30.00

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9780143121350 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 29, 2012), cover price $19.00

Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation

By Michael Strevens

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9780674031838 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 15, 2009, cover price $74.50

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9780674062573 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2011, cover price $33.00

Explanations, Accounts, and Illusions: A Critical Analysis

By John McClure

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9780521385329 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $124.99

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9780521047500 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 14, 2007), cover price $34.99

First Science: The Missing Science, The Theory of Everything, and the Arrow of Time

Product Description: First Science is the most general of sciences. It underlies all the sciences. Whilst some may claim that mathematical physics holds this position, this is not so. Here we show that mathematical physics cannot, in principle, explain the Arrow of Time (i...read more

By Spencer Scoular

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9781599429915 | 1 edition (Dissertation.Com, June 30, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: First Science is the most general of sciences.

Why?

Product Description: Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations with others through the reasons they give...read more

By Charles Tilly

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9780691125213 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 27, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Why?

Causation and Explanation

By Joseph Keim Campbell (editor), Michael O'Rourke (editor) and Harry Silverstein (editor)

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9780262532907 | Bradford Books, July 1, 2007, cover price $8.75

Causation and Explanation

By Joseph Keim Campbell (editor), Michael O'Rourke (editor) and Harry Silverstein (editor)

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9780262033633 | Bradford Books, July 1, 2007, cover price $85.00

How to Map Arguments in Political Science

Aimed at students and scholars, this work presents an introduction of political science. It makes an argument about the useful first cut into explanations of action. It illustrates the map with reference to political examples and a range of political science literature.

By Craig Parsons

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9780199286676 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 18, 2007, cover price $110.00

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9780199286683 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 14, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Aimed at students and scholars, this work presents an introduction of political science.

Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation

By James Woodward

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9780195155273 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 4, 2003, cover price $74.00

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9780195189537 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 27, 2005, cover price $33.95

The Metaphysics of Explanation: An Inquiry into the Nature and Philosophical Limits of Explanation

Product Description: Dr. Whitaker's book represents a highly important contribution to philosophical scholarship. It is not only a sustained analysis of the metaphysical questions of existence and the world, it is also a thorough analysis of the important theories of explanation over the past century and an overview and generalized theory of the essential nature of all types of rational explanation (including convincing resolutions of traditional problems of induction and free will)...read more

By Campbell Whitaker

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9780773464063 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: Dr.

Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science

By John Cornwell (editor)

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9780198607786 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 17, 2004, cover price $35.00

Science of Ufo's: What If They're Real?

In an objective scientific analysis, an astronomer speculates on the possiblitiy of UFOs, analyzes the scientific concepts behind interstellar travel, and discusses the technology and theoretical principles required to make them possible. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By William R. Alschuler

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9780312300715, titled "The Science of Ufos: What If They're Real?" | Reprint edition (Griffin, July 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An astronomer speculates on the possibility of UFOs and discusses the technology and theoretical principles required to make them possible.

9780312288365 | Reprint edition (Griffin, August 13, 1957), cover price $7.79

Explaining in the Primary School

By George Brown and E. C. Wragg

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9780415249553 | New rev edition (Routledge, November 1, 2001), cover price $42.95

Explaining in the Secondary School

Product Description: This book is one of a set of eight innovative yet practical resource books for teachers, focussing on the classroom and covering vital skills for primary and secondary teachers. The books are strongly influenced by the findings of numerous research projects during which hundreds of teachers were observed at work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By George Brown and E. C. Wragg

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9780415249560 | Revised edition (Routledge, November 1, 2001), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This book is one of a set of eight innovative yet practical resource books for teachers, focussing on the classroom and covering vital skills for primary and secondary teachers.

The Science of Ufos

In an objective scientific analysis, an astronomer speculates on the possiblitiy of UFOs and discusses the technology and theoretical principles required to make them possible. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By William R. Alschuler and Howard Zimmerman

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9780312262259 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An astronomer speculates on the possibility of UFOs and discusses the technology and theoretical principles required to make them possible.

The Explationist Defense of Scientific Philosophy

Product Description: Ganson offers new hope in this work for the defense of scientific realism by undermining powerful anti-realist objections and advocating an abandonment of naturalist and externalist strategies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dorit A. Ganson

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9780815339649 | Routledge, February 1, 2001, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Ganson offers new hope in this work for the defense of scientific realism by undermining powerful anti-realist objections and advocating an abandonment of naturalist and externalist strategies.

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