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Explanation and Understanding

This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. It then traces the complex history of these competing traditions as they are manifested in such movements as positivism, idealism, Marxism and contemporary linguistic analysis. Hempels's theory of scientific explanation, the claims of cybernetics the rise of an analytic philosophy of action and the revival of hermenuetics are all discussed. The volume also dea.

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  • "This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. It then traces the complex history of these competing traditions as they are manifested in such movements as positivism, idealism, Marxism and contemporary linguistic analysis. Hempels's theory of scientific explanation, the claims of cybernetics the rise of an analytic philosophy of action and the revival of hermenuetics are all discussed. The volume also dea."@en

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  • "Internationale Erklärung"

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  • "Erklären und Verstehen"
  • "Logiko-filosofskie issledovanija : izbrannye trudy"
  • "Explanation and Understanding"@en
  • "Explanation and understanting"
  • "Logiko-filosofskie issledovanii︠a︡ : izbrannye trudy"
  • "Explanation and understanding"
  • "Explanation and understanding"@en
  • "Spiegazione e comprensione"
  • "Spiegazione e comprensione"@it
  • "Erklären und verstehen"
  • "Explicacion y comprension"@es
  • "Explicacion y comprension"
  • "Explicaţie şi înţelegere"
  • "Explicación y comprensión"@es
  • "Explicación y comprensión"
  • "Erklären und Verstehen : ; aus dem Englischen von Gunther Grewendorf und Georg Meggle"

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