Explanations —— styles of explanation in science

----- 解释：科学中的解释风格

ISBN: 9780198607786 出版年：2004 页码：265 Oxford University Press

Preface List of contributors Introduction 1. What good is an explanation? 2. Can science explain everything? Can science explain anything? 3. Explaining the universe 4. Does physics rule the roost of scientific explanation? 5. Mathematical explanation 6. Ponderable matter: explanation in chemistry 7. The biology of the future and the future of biology 8. Teleology: the explanation that bedevils biology 9. What is it not like to be a brain? 10. Ontology and scientific explanation 11. From explanation to interpretation in social anthropology 12. Passing it on: redescribing scientific explanation Index