{"product_id":"explanation-and-understanding-4","title":"Explanation and Understanding","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world – to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eempiricism about explanation: Hempel’s deductive-nomological model and its problems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall ‘explanatory store’?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecausation and explanation: Lewis’s description-based model, Woodward’s interventionist view and Strevens’s criterion of selection theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econnections between explanation and understanding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emodels, idealization and explanation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enon-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contexts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe nature of understanding.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261418492248,"sku":"9781138700420","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138700420.jpg?v=1767940241","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/explanation-and-understanding-4","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}