Abstract
Michael Strevens has produced an ambitious and comprehensive new account of scientific explanation. This review discusses its main themes, focusing on regularity explanation and a number of methodological concerns.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 459-467 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Biology and Philosophy |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Abstraction
- Causation
- Counterfactuals
- Idealization
- Regularity explanation
- Scientific explanation
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Philosophy
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- History and Philosophy of Science
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