Scientific Explanation. A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946.

First edition. 8vo. xii, 376 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; jaacket price clipped, spine panel faintly toned, small closed tear and 1cm portion of loss to foot of rear joint, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). Cambridge, At the University Press.

The principal work by the Cambridge philosopher of science Richard Bevan Braithwaite (1900-1990) in which he aims 'to examine the logical features common to all the sciences'; that is, to discuss the role of theories of probability, inference, induction, and causality, with an aim of establishing exactly what is meant by explanation in science.

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