The nature of scientific explanation /
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| Author / Creator: | Dougherty, Jude P., 1930- author. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2013. ©2013 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (142 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11225274 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.