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Jonathan Powers, Geoffrey Cantor, Jan Golinski, Anatole Anton, John Fauvel, Vernon Martel and Mike Shortland ~ RP 037 (Summer 1984) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS Elementary Illusions Nancy Cartwright, How the Laws of Physics Lie, Oxford University Press, 1983, 1..16 hb, 1..7.95 pb The classic work of C.G. Hempel established as orthodoxy the view that scientific explanation consists in subsuming phenomena under covering laws. With varying degrees of plausibility the analysis was extended to cover ordinary, everyday explanations, which […]