Explanation and Understanding by Arnon Levy - 9781138700420

Explanation and UnderstandingAuthor(s): Arnon Levy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138700420, 978-1138700420\nSynopsis\nScience 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?\n\nIn this thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation, Arnon Levy explores the following problems and questions:\n\nthe 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 place\nempiricism about explanation: Hempels deductive-nomological model and its problems\nunificationism about explanation: must good scientific explanations fit into an overal.