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Explaining Explanation

David-Hillel Ruben offers a discussion of some of the main historical

attempts to explain the concept of explanation, examining the works

of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Hempel. Building on

and developing the insights of these historical figures, he introduces

an elaboration and defense of his own solution.

In this volume, Ruben relates the concept of explanation to both

epistemological and metaphysical issues. Not content to confine the

concept to the realm of philosophy of science, he examines it within a far

more broadly conceived theory of knowledge. He concludes with his own

original and challenging explanation of explanation.

Explaining Explanation will be read with interest by students of general

philosophy as well as those specializing in the philosophy of science and

scholars with a more advanced level of interest.

The Problems of Philosophy

Their Past and Present

General Editor: Ted Honderich

Grote Professor of the Philosophy of

Mind and Logic

University College, London

Each book in this series is written to bring into view and to deal with

a great or significant problem of philosophy. The books are intended

to be accessible to undergraduates in philosophy, and to other readers,

and to advance the subject, making a contribution to it.

The first part of each book presents the history of the problem in

question, in some cases its recent past. The second part, of a contemporary

and analytic kind, defends and elaborates the author’s preferred solution.

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*Rationality

*The Rational Foundations of Ethics

*Moral Knowledge

*Mind-Body Identity Theories

*Practical Reasoning

*Personal Identity

*The Infinite

*Thought and Language

Human Consciousness

*Explaining Explanation

The Nature of Art

The Implications of Determinism

Weakness of the Will

Knowledge of the External World

If P, Then Q: Conditionals and

the foundations of reasoning

Political Freedom

*Scepticism

Knowledge and Belief

The Existence of the World

Naming and Reference: From

word to object

James O.Grunebaum

Louis P.Pojman

Harold J.Brown

T.L.S.Sprigge

Alan Goldman

Cynthia Macdonald

Robert Audi

Harold W.Noonan

A.W.Moore

Julius Moravcsik

Alastair Hannay

David-Hillel Ruben

A.L.Cothey

Roy Weatherford

Justin Gosling

Bruce Aune

David H.Sanford

George G.Brenkert

Christopher Hookway

Frederick F.Schmitt

Reinhardt Grossman

R.J.Nelson

*Also available in paperback

Explaining Explanation

David-Hillel Ruben

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

The London School of Economics and Political Science

London and New York

First published 1990 by Routledge

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

First published in paperback in 1992

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Ruben, David-Hillel.

Explaining explanation.—(The problems of philosophy)

1. Explanation

I. Title II. Series

160

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

also available

ISBN 0-203-16930-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-26475-4 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-08765-1 (Print Edition)

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