The Nature of Scientific Explanation - Dougherty, Jude P.
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Challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction. Dougherty argues that a philosophy of science is but a part of one's overarching metaphysical outlook, itself painstakingly derived from considerations of nature, law, intelligibility, causality, and inference. This book critically examines several well-known philosophical positions from a time-transcending Aristotelian point of view. It defends an Aristotelian or "realist” interpretation of science, employing the textual Aristotle as commented upon and amplified through the centuries.…mehr

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Challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to description and prediction. Dougherty argues that a philosophy of science is but a part of one's overarching metaphysical outlook, itself painstakingly derived from considerations of nature, law, intelligibility, causality, and inference. This book critically examines several well-known philosophical positions from a time-transcending Aristotelian point of view. It defends an Aristotelian or "realist” interpretation of science, employing the textual Aristotle as commented upon and amplified through the centuries.
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JUDE P. DOUGHERTY, dean emeritus of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, is author of The Logic of Religion, Jacques Maritain, and Western Creed, Western Identity, editor of the Review of Metaphysics, and general editor of the Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy series published by CUA Press.