Author: WILSON, Fred.
Title: Explanation, Causation and Deduction.
Description: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1985. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. This essay "...aims to defend the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation against criticisms that have been levelled at it". Argues "...that a Humean version of the deductive-nomological model of explanation can be defended as (1) the correct account of scientific explanation of individual facts and processes, and (2) as the correct account of causal explanation of individual facts and processes". 385pp.

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