Hume’s Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation 9781351383240, 9781351383233, 9781138503137, 9781315145242, 1351383248

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Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology i

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Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism and Laws of Nature 981121171X, 9789811211713

The book explores several open questions in the philosophy and the foundations of statistical mechanics. Each chapter is

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The Nature of Psychological Explanation 0262030942, 9780262030946

In exploring the nature of psychological explanation, this book looks at how psychologists theorize about the human abil

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Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science Without Scientific Realism 3030723488, 9783030723484

This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism. Modal empiricism is the view

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Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation 0198242549, 9780198242543

In this controversial new book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of e

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Causality and Scientific Explanation: Medieval and Early Classical Science (vol. 1) [1.0]

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Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World 9780691221489

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that ac

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The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism 9780773594760

A defining work on the scientific chacterization of reality.

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Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought 0710813090, 9780710813091

The aim of this book is to show how the realist philosophy of science, particularly the ‘transcendental realism’ recentl

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Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation 9780674031838, 9780674062573, 2008019211

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