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Auteur(s) : Mantzavinos, Chrysostomos
Titre(s) : Explanatory pluralism [Texte imprimé] / C. Mantzavinos,...
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-221 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : The wrong question: what is an explanation? ; A brief outlook on the social sciences
; Towards explanatory pluralism ; The explanatory enterprise ; The rules of the
explanatory game ; The plurality of explanatory games ; Explanatory activity as
problem-solving activity ; Explanatory rules as shared rules ; Normative appraisal:
a procedural conception ; Explanatory methodology as technology.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 189-213. Index
"Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This
book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and
defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory
games'. Mantzavinos provides a descriptive account of the explanatory activity of
scientists in different domains and shows how they differ from commonsensical explanations
offered in everyday life by ordinary people and also from explanations offered in
religious contexts. He also shows how an evaluation and a critical appraisal of explanations
put forward in different social arenas can take place on the basis of different values.
Explanatory Pluralism provides solutions to all important descriptive and normative
problems of the philosophical theory of explanation as illustrated in sophisticated
case studies from economics and medicine, but also from mythology and religion" ;
"Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This
book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and
defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of "explanatory
games". Mantzavinos provides a descriptive account of the explanatory activity of
scientists in different domains and shows how they differ from commonsensical explanations
offered in everyday life by ordinary people and also from explanations offered in
religious contexts"
Sujet(s) : Pluralisme (philosophie)
Épistémologie
Explication
Philosophie des sciences
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107128514 (hardback). - ISBN 110712851X (hardback)
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