Explaining Explanation

Now in paper, Explaining Explanation provides a non-technical discussion of some of the main historical attempts to explain the concept of explanation in the works of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Hempel. David-Hillel Ruben builds on and develops the insights of these key historical figures and concludes with an original and challenging view of explanation. Ruben relates the concept of explanation to both epistemological and metaphysical issues. Not merely content to confine the concept to the realm of the philosophy of science, Ruben examines this concept within a more broadly conceived theory of knowledge.