Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science

Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science

Cover of the first edition
Author	Carl Gustav Hempel
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Philosophy of science
Published	1965
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	504
ISBN	978-0029143407

Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science is a 1965 book by Carl Gustav Hempel. It is regarded as one of the most important works in philosophy of science written after the Second World War.

Summary

The work collects Hempel's papers on explanation and confirmation, as well as on related topics such as concept formation, criteria of meaningfulness, and scientific theories.^[1] Hempel describes probabilistic or statistical explanation as having the form of an argument, though not a deductive one, from premisses to conclusion.^[2]

Influence

Philosopher Michael Friedman writes that Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science is seen as one of the most important works in philosophy of science written after the Second World War.^[1]

See also

• Models of scientific inquiry

References

Footnotes

1. Friedman 1999. p. 375.
2. Nozick 1994. p. 651.

Bibliography

Books

• Friedman, Michael (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.
• Nozick, Robert (1994). Philosophical Explanations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-66479-5.