Competing explanations : exclusion and importance in historical accounts

This thesis is a philosophical examination of the nature of explanatory competition between historical accounts. It is usual for a philosophy of explanation to attempt an analysis of explanation, singular. The focus of this work is on relations between two or more explanations. In particular, I inve...

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Main Author: Day, Mark Andrew
Published: University of Sheffield 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274988