{"product_id":"scientific-explanation-minnesota-studies-in-the-philosophy-of-science-9780816617739","title":"Scientific Explanation (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science)","description":"\u003cp\u003eScientific Explanation was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible  and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Is a new consensus emerging in the philosophy of science? The nine distinguished contributors to this volume apply that question to the realm of scientific explanation and  although their conclusions vary  they agree in one respect: there definitely was an old consensus. Co-editor Wesley Salmons opening essay  \"Four Decades of Scientific Explanation \" grounds the entire discussion. His point of departure is the founding document of the old consensus: a 1948 paper by Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim  \"Studies in the Logic of Explanation \" that set forth  with remarkable clarity  a mode of argument that came to be known as the deductive-nomological model. This approach  holding that explanation dies not move beyond the sphere of empirical knowledge  remained dominant during the hegemony of logical empiricism from 1950 to 1975. Salmon traces in detail the rise and breakup of the old consensus  and examines the degree to which there is  if not a new consensus  at least a kind of reconciliation on this issue among contemporary philosophers of science and clear agreement that science can indeed tell us why. The other contributors  in the order of their presentations  are: Peter Railton  Matti Sintonen  Paul W. Humphreys  David Papineau  Nancy Cartwright  James Woodward  Merrilee H. Salmon  and Philip Kitcher.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666405417013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0816617732","price":104.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816617739.jpg?v=1782430839","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/scientific-explanation-minnesota-studies-in-the-philosophy-of-science-9780816617739","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}