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Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of 'explanation' and its scope and limits pervades popular exposition of the natural sciences, popular history and philosophy of science. This fascinating and intriguing book explores the way explanations work, why they vary between disciplines, periods, and cultures, and whether they have any necessary boundaries. In other words, Explanations aims to achieve a better understanding of explanation, both within the sciences and the humanities. It features contributions from expert writers from a wide range of disciplines, including science, philosophy, mathematics, and social anthropology.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Philosophy of science

• Full title: Explanations
• Subtitle: styles of explanation in science
• Author: John Cornwell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 266
• EAN: 9780198607786
• ISBN: 0198607784
• ID: 04528068
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 580 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 240 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. April 2004

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