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      Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation

      Michael Strevens

      Proposes a theory of scientific explanation and understanding that revises and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. This book discards the usual criterion of counterfactual dependence in favor of…

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      Bigger than Chaos: Understanding Complexity through Probability

      Michael Strevens

      Many complex systems-from immensely complicated ecosystems to minute assemblages of molecules-surprise us with their simple behavior. In this book, Michael Strevens aims to explain how simplicity can coexist with, indeed…

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      Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation

      Michael Strevens

      Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. The result is an account of explanation that has especially…

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      Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure

      Michael Strevens

      Michael Strevens makes three claims about rules for inferring physical probability. They are reliable. They constitute a key part of the physical intuition that allows us to navigate the world…

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      Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy

      Michael Strevens

      In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about…

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      The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

      Michael Strevens

      Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it

      It is only in the last…

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      The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

      Michael Strevens (New York University)

      The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise. –Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting…

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      The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

      Michael Strevens (New York University)

      A paradigm-shifting, widely acclaimed work for our generation, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.

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