SCIENTIFIC LAWS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS: A DIFFERENTIATED TYPOLOGY

• Authors: Hanzel I.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper tries to provide an alternative to C. G. Hempel's approach to scientific laws and scientific explanation as given in his D-N model. It starts with a brief exposition of the main characteristics of Hempel's approach to deductive explanations based on universal scientific laws and analyzes the problems and paradoxes inherent in this approach. By way of solution, it analyzes the scientific laws and explanations in classical mechanics and then reconstructs the corresponding models of explanation, as well as the types of scientific laws appearing in it. The paper makes an attempt to provide a new approach to the scientific laws and scientific explanations. The author gives a brief overview of Hempel's approach to the scientific laws and scientific explanation, as well as of its failures and paradoxes. As a way out, the author analyzes the scientific laws and explanations in classical mechanics and then reconstructs the corresponding models of explanation, as well as the types of scientific laws appearing in it. Finally, he provides a differentiated typology of the scientific laws and scientific explanations.

Keywords

EN

APPEARANCES; D-N MODEL; GRADUAL CONCRETIZATION; HEMPEL C.G.; SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS; SCIENTIFIC LAWS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 323-344
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hanzel I.

• I. Hanzel, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA05009524