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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Virginia Tech
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78011 |