{"product_id":"explanatory-pluralism-c-mantzavinos-9781107128514","title":"Explanatory Pluralism","description":"Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory games'. Mantzavinos provides a descriptive account of the explanatory activity of scientists in different domains and shows how they differ from commonsensical explanations offered in everyday life by ordinary people and also from explanations offered in religious contexts. He also shows how an evaluation and a critical appraisal of explanations put forward in different social arenas can take place on the basis of different values. Explanatory Pluralism provides solutions to all important descriptive and normative problems of the philosophical theory of explanation as illustrated in sophisticated case studies from economics and medicine, but also from mythology and religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. Mantzavinos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 110712851X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107128514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.39h x 6.05w x 0.68d","brand":"C. Mantzavinos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838276030719,"sku":"9781107128514","price":74.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfd47f8e-e61d-49d0-bbd2-92ac4afc7af8.jpg?v=1746589330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/explanatory-pluralism-c-mantzavinos-9781107128514","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}