{"product_id":"9781138700444","title":"Explanation and Understanding by Arnon Levy","description":"Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past. Science also aims to understand the world - to explain why it is the way it is. But what does it take to explain a phenomenon? How does science generate understanding and what does that take?In this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:the background to the topic of scientific explanation, particularly the questions of what an explanation is, what makes a good explanation and why seek them in the first placeempiricism about explanation: Hempel's deductive-nomological model and its problemsunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overall `explanatory store'?causation and explanation: Lewis's description-based model, Woodward's interventionist view and Strevens's criterion of selection theoryconnections between explanation and understandingmodels, idealization and explanationnon-causal explanation and explanation in non-scientific contextsthe nature of understanding.   Additional features, such as chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and a glossary, make this an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and epistemology.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297403974005,"sku":"9781138700444","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781138700444.jpg?v=1762780618","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781138700444","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}