The Value Provided by a Scientific Explanation
Book chapter (August 2022)
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Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Hempel’s Deductive-Nomological Model: In the Beginning …
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Laws and Corresponding Counterfactuals, – An Untenable Connection
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 F. Dretske’s Total Rejection of the Hempel-Model
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 Prelude to Armstrong: A Mathematical Revolution That Inspired F. Ramsey, and Left Russell and Armstrong Unmoved
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 D. Armstrong’s Account of Laws: Identity Lost, Regained, and Lost Again
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Laws and Accidental Generalities
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 The Explanation of Laws: Two Neglected and Radically Different Theories. One Inspired by D. Hilbert; the Other Inspired by F. Ramsey
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 David Hilbert’s Architecture of Theories and Schematic Structuralism
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Theories, Theoretical Scenarios, Their Magnitude Vector Spaces and the Modal Physical Possibilities they Provide
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 The Possibilities That Theories Provide (Physical Modals) and the Possibilities of Laws (Nomic Modals)
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 Schematic Theories, Subsumtion of Laws, and Non-accidental Generalizations
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The Explanation of Laws: Two Neglected and Radically Different Theories. One Inspired by D. Hilbert; the Other Inspired by F. Ramsey