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Our lives, states of health, relationships, behavior, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of "explanation" and its scope and limits pervades popular exposition of the natural sciences, popular history and philosophy of science. This fascinating book explores the way explanations work, why they vary between disciplines, periods, and cultures, and whether they have any necessary boundaries. In other words, Explanations aims to achieve a better understanding of explanation, both within the sciences and the humanities. It features contributions from expert writers from a wide range of disciplines, including science, philosophy, mathematics, and social anthropology.
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About the Author
John Cornwell is an author and journalist, and Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is the editor of two previous collections, also published by OUP: Nature's Imagination (1994) and Consciousness and Human Identity (1998).
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`I recommend this book to all readers interested in philosophy and sociology of science.'
Andrzej Stasiak, EMBO Reports
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0198607784
- ISBN 13 9780198607786
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages266
- EditorCornwell John
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