Explanatory Understanding and Contrastive Facts

Philosophica 51 (1993)
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Understanding Interests and Causal Explanation.Petri Ylikoski - 2001 - Dissertation, University of Helsinki

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The scientific image.C. Van Fraassen Bas - 1980 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Studies in the logic of explanation.Carl Gustav Hempel & Paul Oppenheim - 1948 - Philosophy of Science 15 (2):135-175.
The nature of explanation.Peter Achinstein - 1983 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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