『Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science』

Carl G. Hempel

(1965年刊行, The Free Press, New York, viii+504 pp.)

日本語訳:カール・ヘンペル[長坂源一郎訳]『科学的説明の諸問題』(1973年3月31日刊行,岩波書店,東京, x+260 pp.)は,本論文集のうち第12章「Aspects of Scientific Explanation」(pp. 331-496)のみを訳出したものである.

【目次】
Preface v

I. Confirmation, Induction, and Rational Belief 1

1. Studies in the Logic of Confirmation 3
  Postscript (1964) on Confirmation 47
2. Inductive Inconsistencies 53
3. Science and Human Values 81

II. Conceptions of Cognitive Significance 99

4. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes 101
  Postscript (1964) on Cognitive Significance 120
5. A Logical Appraisal of Operationalism 123

III. Structure and Function of Scientific Concepts and Theories 135

6. Fundamentals of Taxonomy 137
7. Typological Methods in the Natural and the Social Sciences 155
8. The Theoretician's Dilemma: A Study in the Logic of Theory Construction 173

IV. Scientific Explanation 229

9. The Function of General Laws in History 231
10. Studies in the Logic of Explanation 245
  Postscript (1964) on Studies in the Logic of Explanation 291
11. The Logic of Functional Analysis 297
12. Aspects of Scientific Explanation 331


Index 497