Aspects of Scientific Explanation

Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science
Cover of the first edition
Author Carl Gustav Hempel
Country United States
Language English
Subject Philosophy of science
Published 1965
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 504
ISBN 978-0029143407

Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science is a 1965 book by the philosopher Carl Gustav Hempel. It is regarded as one of the most important works in the philosophy of science written after the Second World War.

Summary

The work collects Hempel's papers on explanation and confirmation, as well as on related topics such as concept formation, criteria of meaningfulness, and scientific theories.[1] Hempel describes probabilistic or statistical explanation as having the form of an argument, though not a deductive one, from premisses to conclusion.[2]

Reception

The historian Peter Gay described Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science as "seminal" and "indispensable", writing that Hempel persuasively argued that "the logic of history and that of the natural sciences are the same."[3] Gay observed that Hempel's essay "The Function of General Laws in History", included in the collection, is a "much debated classic".[4] The philosopher Michael Friedman wrote that Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science is seen as one of the most important works in philosophy of science written after the Second World War.[1]

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References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Friedman 1999. p. 375.
  2. ↑ Nozick 1994. p. 651.
  3. ↑ Gay 1988. pp. 236-7.
  4. ↑ Gay 1976. p. 238.

Bibliography

Books

  • Friedman, Michael (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.
  • Gay, Peter (1976). Art and Act: On Causes in History – Manet, Gropius, Mondrian. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-430061-7.
  • Gay, Peter (1988). Style in History: Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, Burckhardt. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30558-9.
  • Nozick, Robert (1994). Philosophical Explanations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-66479-5.
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