The metaphorical conception of scientific explanation: Rereading Mary Hesse

Rentetzi, M

dc.contributor.author	Rentetzi, M	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T11:45:55Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T11:45:55Z
dc.date.issued	2005	en
dc.identifier.issn	09254560	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/37697
dc.subject	Bas van Fraassen	en
dc.subject	Gender studies	en
dc.subject	Mary Hesse	en
dc.subject	Metaphors	en
dc.subject	Scientific explanation	en
dc.title	The metaphorical conception of scientific explanation: Rereading Mary Hesse	en
heal.type	other	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1007/s10838-006-0091-2	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10838-006-0091-2	en
heal.publicationDate	2005	en
heal.abstract	In 1997, five decades after the publication of the landmark Hempel-Oppenheim article ""Studies in the Logic of Explanation""([1948], 1970) Wesley Salmon published Causality and Explanation, a book that re-addresses the issue of scientific explanation. He provided an overview of the basic approaches to scientific explanation, stressed their weaknesses, and offered novel insights. However, he failed to mention Mary Hesse's approach to the topic and analyze her standpoint. This essay brings front and center Hesse's approach to scientific explanation formulated in the 1960s and argues that rereading Hesse's account one can overcome the criticisms addressed towards another influential theory of explanation that of Bas van Fraassen's. Furthermore, it could bring the traditional philosophy of science into a fruitful conversation with science and technology studies and gender studies in science, technology and medicine. © Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006.	en
heal.journalName	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/s10838-006-0091-2	en
dc.identifier.volume	36	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	377	en
dc.identifier.epage	391	en