The Concept of Explanation - Praca zbiorowa

A collection of essays devoted to the problem of explanation in various disciplines of science and humanities: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, economics as well as theology.

The issues covered include such topics as the interplay between explanation and understanding, the problem of a priori explanation, the limits of causal explanations in physics, the application of mathematics in biology, the relationship between proof and explanation in mathematics, and the use of mechanistic framework in neuroscience viewed from the perspective of philosophy of science. Moreover, various methodological controversies related to science and humanities are considered.

Contributors:

Robert Audi, Bartosz Brożek, Willem B. Drees, Michał Furman, Marcin Gorazda, Michael Heller, Mateusz Hohol, Andrzej Koleżyński, Stanisław Krajewski, Dominique Lambert, Olivier Riaudel, Jan Woleński, Krzysztof Wójtowicz, Wojciech Załuski.

Bartosz Brożek, Matuesz Hohol

Introduction

Bartosz Brożek

Explanation and Understanding

Jan Woleński

Are Explanation and Prediction Symmetric?

Robert Audi

A Priori Explanation

Stanislaw Krajewski

Remarks on Mathematical Explanation

Krzysztof Wójtowicz

On the Problem of Explanation in Mathematics

Michael Heller

Limits of Causal Explanations in Physics

Andrzej Koleżyński

Pragmatism of Chemical Explanation

Dominique Lambert

“When Science Meets Historicity”

Some Questions About the Use of Mathematics in Biology

Mateusz Hohol, Michał Furman

On Explanation in Neuroscience: The Mechanistic Framework

Marcin Gorazda

The Epistemic and Cognitive Concept of Explantion in Economics.

An Attempt at Synthesis

Wojciech Załuski

The Varieties of Egoism. Some Reflections on Moral Explanation of Human Action

Willem B. Drees

Is Explaining Religion Explaining Religion Away?

Olivier Riaudel

Explanation in Christian Theology: Some Points in Common with the Human Sciences

Liczba stron: 326

e-book ISBN: 978-83-7886-205-5