TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nagel,Ernest
TI  - The structure of science: problems in the logicof scientific explanation 
PY  - 1961///
CY  - New York, Chicago, Burlingame
PB  - Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Index: p. 607-618; 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
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