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This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. It then traces the complex history of these competing traditions as they are manifested in such movements as positivism, idealism, Marxism and contemporary... Read more
Preface
I: Two Traditions
II: Causality and Causal Explanation
III: Intentionality and Teleological Explanation
IV: Explanation in History and the Social Sciences
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