On the eliminative explanation of social theories

Studia Logica 42 (2-3):331 - 345 (1983)
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The paper discusses eliminative explanation in which a (social) successor theory correctively explains and, as a consequence, eliminates its predecessor theory. Technical concepts and results from general logic are applied to the explication of corrective explanation, especially to the notion of framework translation that it involves.

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10.1007/bf01063851

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original Tuomela, Raimo (1982) "On the eliminative explanation of social theories". Bulletin of the Section of Logic 11(1-2):80-81

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Raimo Tuomela
Last affiliation: University of Helsinki

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Methodological individualism and explanation.Raimo Tuomela - 1990 - Philosophy of Science 57 (1):133-140.

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