Hempel, Carl

Hempel, Carl G. Studies in the Logic of Confirmation. In Aspects of Scientific Explanation. New York The Free Press, 1965. 3-51. 

Hempel, Carl G. 1965. "Aspects of Scientific Explanation." In Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays (pp. 331-496). New York Free Press. 

Hempel, Carl. 1966. Philosophy of Natural Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall. 

Hempel, Carl G. 1966. Philosophy of natural science. Englewood CUffs Prentice-HaU. 

Hempel, Carl G., and Paul Oppenheim. 1948. Studies in the logic of explanation. Philosophy of Science 15 135-175. 

Hempel, Carl G. 1969. Reduction Ontological and linguistic facets. In Philosophy, science, and method Essays in honor of Ernest Nagel, ed. Morton White, Sidney Morgenbesser, and Patrick Suppes, 179-199. New York St. Martin s Press. 

Nozick, R. (1969) Newcomb s problem and two principles of choice, in N. Racher (ed.), Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. Dordrecht, Holland D. Reidel Publishing Co. 

The two problems we have just discussed add up to a weakness in the best-known theory of scientific explanation, that proposed by Carl Hempel. He argues that explanation amounts to logical deduction of the event to be explained, with general laws and statements of initial conditions as the premises. One objection is that the general laws might reflect correlation, not causation. Another is that the laws, even if genuinely causal,... 

The issues of scientific explanation discussed here are explored in many books on the philosophy of science. Carl Hempel s classic Aspects of Scientific Explanation (New York Free Press, 1965) remains a fine starting point. A good study of causation is Tom Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg s Hume and the Problem of Causation (New York Oxford University Press,... 

LAWRENCE SKLAR is Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Davidson, Donald. 1969. The individuation of events. In Essays in honor of Carl G. Hempel, ed. 

The point is that a data mass rarely speaks for itself. A couple of general references are Carl Hempel. Philosophy of Natural Science (Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prentice-Hall, 1966) and Glenn E. Snelbecker. Looming Theory, Instructional Theory and Psychological Desigt (New York McGraw Hill, 1974.)... 

H. Schneider, G. Hempel, Wiss. Z. Teeh. Hochsch. Carl Schorlemmer Leuna-Merseburg, 22 (3), 407 (1980). 

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