The Epistemic and Ontic Conceptions of Scientific Explanation

While Wesley Salmon attributes the debate on scientific explanation between Carl Hempel and Peter Railton (or between the epistemic and ontic conceptions of scientific explanation, more generally) as one over which conception of explanation is correct, I claim that Hempel and Railton were responding...

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Main Author: Taylor, Kaetlin Diane
Other Authors: Philosophy
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78011