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Sebastian Hempel
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Scientific Explanation
Scientific Explanation
This chapter argues that the notion of explanation relevant to the philosophy of science is that of an answer to a why-question. From this point of view it surveys most of the hist...
Introduction
Introduction
What is a scientific explanation? This has been a central question in philosophy of science at least since Hempel and Oppenheim’s pivotal attempt at an answer in 1948 (also known a...
13-14 Festival Publicitario de San Sebastián
13-14 Festival Publicitario de San Sebastián
Festival Publicitario de San Sebastián. (13ʹ-14ʹ : 1999-2000 : San Sebastián)...
Understanding and the Aims of Science
Understanding and the Aims of Science
Philosophers of science have long believed that understanding, contrary to explanation, is a philosophically irrelevant notion. On Carl Hempel’s influential view, understanding is ...

