Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science

Preface Contents I. Confirmation, Induction, and Rational Belief 1. Studies in the Logic of Confirmation Postscript (1964) on Confirmation 2. Inductive Inconsistencies 3. Science and Human Values II. Conceptions of Cognitive Significance 4. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes Postscript (1964) on Cognitive Significance 5. A Logical Appraisal of Operationism III. Structure and Function of Scientific Concepts and Theories 6. Fundamentals of Taxonomy 7. Typological Methods in the Natural and the Social Science 8. The Theoretician's Dilemma: A Study in the Logic of Theory Construction IV. Scientific Explanation 9. The Function of General Laws in History 10. Studies in the Logic of Explanation Postscript (1964) to Studies in the Logic of Explanation 11. The Logic of Functional Analysis 12. Aspects of Scientific Explanation 1. Introduction 2. Deductive-Nomological Explanation 3. Statistical Explanation 4. The Concepts of Covering-Law Explanation as Explicatory Models 5. Pragmatic Aspects of Explanation 6. Models and Analogies in Scientific Explanation 7. Genetic Explanation and Covering Laws 8. Explanation-by-Concept 9. Dispositional Explanation 10. The Concept of Rationality and the Logic of Explanation by Reasons 11. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects