Nagel, Ernest  1901-1985 <br/><br/>
The structure of science :  problems in the logicof scientific explanation / 
By Ernest Nagel. 
 - New York ;  Chicago ;  Burlingame :  Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.,  1961. 
 - XIII, 618 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Index: p. 607-618 
<br/><br/>Contents: 1. Science and common sense; 2. Patterns of scientific explanation; 3. The deductive pattern of explanation; 4. The logical character of scientific laws; 5. Experimental laws and theories; 6. The cognitive status of theories; 7. Mechanical explanations and the science of mechanics; 8. Space and Geometry; 9. Geometry and physics. 10. Causality and interminism in physical theory. 11. The reduction of theories; 12. machanistic explanation and organismic biology; 13. methodological problems of the social sciences; 14. Explanation and understanding in the social sciences; 15. Problems in the logic of historical inquiry. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Philosophy