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The nature of scientific explanation / Jude P. Dougherty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dougherty, Jude P., 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 122 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2013]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813220130
- 0813220130
- 9780813220147
- 0813220149
- OCLC:
- 794708146
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