Explanations : styles of explanation in science / edited by John Cornwell.
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John Cornwell
- 1. What good is an explanation? / Peter Lipton
- 2. Can science explain everything? : can science explain anything? / Steven Weinberg
- 3. Explaining the universe / Martin Rees
- 4. Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? / William C. Saslaw
- 5. Mathematical explanation / John D. Barrow
- 6. Ponderable matter : explanation in chemistry / Peter Atkins
- 7. The biology of the future and the future of biology / Steven Rose
- 8. Teleology : the explanation that bedevils biology / David Hanke
- 9. What is it not like to be a brain? / Colin McGinn
- 10. Ontology and scientific explanation / Tian Yu Cao
- 11. From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology / Jack Goody
- 12. Passing it on : redescribing scientific explanation / Jon Turney.
