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Ideas of Carl Hempel, by Text
[German, 1905 - 1997, Born at Oranienburg. Professor at Princeton University.]
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1965
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Aspects of Scientific Explanation
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p.40
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Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Okasha]
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p.67
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For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Bird]
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p. 412-3
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p.15
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The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different
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p.352
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p.24
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Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Salmon]
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1967
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Philosophy of Natural Science
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p.83
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p.99
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Scientific explanation aims at a unifying account of underlying structures and processes
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