Causal Explanations of Historical Trends
Philosophers interested in historical explanation have tended to focus on causal explanations of particular events, states of affairs, or observable traces. Yet researchers working in fields ranging from paleontology and evolutionary biology to climate sc
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Marie I. Kaiser Oliver R. Scholz Daniel Plenge Andreas Hüttemann Editors
Explanation in the Special Sciences The Case of Biology and History
Explanation in the Special Sciences
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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors-in-Chief: VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. ´ JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Editors Marie I. Kaiser Philosophisches Seminar Universität zu Köln Köln, Germany
Oliver R. Scholz Philosophisches Seminar Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Münster, Germany
Daniel Plenge Philosophisches Seminar Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Münster, Germany
Andreas Hüttemann Philosophisches Seminar Universität zu Köln Köln, Germany
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