Modes of Explanation: Affordances for Action and Prediction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349487988 ISBN 13: 9781349487981

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

Modes of Explanation is the first book in decades to attempt to bring these conflicting approaches together and to offer a compelling narrative to explore how the paradox of 'explanation' can converge.

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Peter Achinstein, Johns Hopkins University, USA Timothy Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Jan Faye, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Alicia Juarrero, Prince George's Community College, USA Kevin Kelly, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Zachary Kopplin, Rice University, USA Lee McIntyre, Boston University, USA Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh, USA Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Stanley Salthe, City University of New York, USA Beckett Sterner, University of Michigan, USA Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada Steven Wallis, Capella University, USA Jonathan Waskan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA William Wimsatt, University of Chicago, USA Konstantin Genin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ian Harmon, Rice University, USA Andrew Higgins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Gregori Kanatzidis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Nathan Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Samantha Paulsen, Rice University, USA Joseph Spino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Edmond Ramly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349487988
• ISBN 13: 9781349487981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319
• Editor: Lissack M., Graber A.