A Dialogue on Explanation by C Mantzavinos

A Dialogue on Explanation by C Mantzavinos

This book introduces a panorama of the philosophical theory of explanation. This is certainly the case in real-world philosophical interaction, and as this book aptly demonstrates, it can also be the case in written philosophical exposition.

“Mantzavinos’s book on explanation is a useful summary of the philosophical conceptions of explanations, which put forward a new account as wellHis examples are short and illuminating, usually taken from economy and medicine and thus not just from physics. Students and researchers could read and discuss this book in classrooms. … Mantzavinos did a great job in delivering his ideas in a clear and distinct way.” (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Review of History of Philosophy of Science Books, reviewhopos.blogspot.com, May 05, 2019)

C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Athens. He is the author of Wettbewerbstheorie (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994), Individuals, Institutions, and Markets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals in four languages, notably “Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance” in Perspectives on Politics, 2004 (with Douglass North and Syed Shariq) and “Explanatory Games”, in The Journal of Philosophy, 2013. He is the Philosophy Section Editor of the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social andBehavioral Sciences, which was published in 2015.

Before his current appointment in Athens, he held the Chair of Economics and Philosophy at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (2004–2011). He has also taught at Freiburg, Bayreuth, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford (2000–2001). He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (2001–2004) and served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard (twice), at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (twice) and at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He holds two PhDs, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen.

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ISBN 13	9783030058333
ISBN 10	3030058336
Title	A Dialogue on Explanation
Author	C Mantzavinos
Series	Springerbriefs In Philosophy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published	2019-01-10
Number of pages	56
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