Explanation Revisited
- 1 October 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 28 (4) , 429-436
- https://doi.org/10.1086/287829
Abstract
In ‘Hempel and Oppenheim on Explanation’, (see preceding article) Eberle, Kaplan, and Montague criticize the analysis of explanation offered by Hempel and Oppenheim in their ‘Studies in the Logic of Explanation’. These criticisms are shown to be related to the fact that Hempel and Oppenheim's analysis fails to satisfy simultaneously three newly proposed criteria of adequacy for any analysis of explanation. A new analysis is proposed which satisfies these criteria and thus is immune to the criticisms brought against the earlier analysis.Keywords
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- Studies in the Logic of ExplanationPhilosophy of Science, 1948