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The Structure of Science
Ernest Nagel
其他書名
Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
出版Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961
ISBN07100188279780710018823
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fIhEAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Introduction : Science and common sense -- Patterns of scientific explanation -- The deductive pattern of explanation -- The logical character of scientific laws -- Experimental laws and theories -- The cognitive status of theories -- Mechanical explanations and the science of mechanics -- Space and geometry -- Geometry and physics -- Causality and indeterminism in physical theory -- The reduction of theories -- Mechanistic explanation and organismic biology -- Methodological problems of the social sciences -- Explanation and understanding in the social sciences -- Problems in the logic of historical inquiry.