EXPLICANDO LA EXPLICACIÓN

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  • Antonio J. Diéguez
Keywords: explicación científica, modelo de cobertura legal, modelo de relevancia estadística, modelo erotético, causalidad

Abstract

The three main models that have been proposed to account for scientific explanation are here analyzed and evaluated: the covering-law model, the statistical-relevance model (completed with the causal/mechanical model) and the erotetic model. These models follow each other in a process of increasing conceptual refinement. The last two have solved some of the problems that the covering-law model presented, byt they have given rise o others. NOne of them achieves to establish the necessary and sufficient conditions to determine when we face a scientific explanation, but taken as idealizatiosn, they do not lack utility.

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Author Biography

Antonio J. Diéguez

Dptto. de Filosofía. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Málaga
How to Cite
Diéguez, A. J. (1994). EXPLICANDO LA EXPLICACIÓN. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (8), 83–108. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/13311
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