Lesson 7a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)

22 Abril 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini

 Illustration of the deductive-nomological model (or ND model)  proposed by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim. Hempel's symmetry thesis about explanation and prediction. Presentation and discussion of some criticisms that have been addressed to the DN model: criticism, by Michael Scriven, about the necessity conditions stated in the model ; criticisms, by Sylvain Bromberger and Wesley Salmon, about the sufficiency conditions stated in the model. Explanatory irrelevancies and Explanatory asymmetries.