How Long to Read Depth

How Long Does it Take to Read Depth?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 12 minutes to read Depth by Michael Strevens

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to merely describe, how the world works? Michael Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. What is replaced is the test for explanatorily relevant causal information: Strevens discards the usual criterion of counterfactual dependence in favor of a criterion that turns on a process of progressive abstraction away from a fully detailed, physical causal story. The augmentations include the introduction of a new, non-causal explanatory relevance relation—entanglement—and an independent theory of the role of black-boxing and functional specification in explanation. The abstraction-centered notion of difference-making leads to a rich causal treatment of many aspects of explanation that have been either ignored or handled inadequately by earlier causal approaches, including the explanation of laws and other regularities, with particular attention to the explanation of physically contingent high-level laws, idealization in explanation, and probabilistic explanation in deterministic systems, as in statistical physics, evolutionary biology, and medicine. The result is an account of explanation that has especially significant consequences for the higher-level sciences: biology, psychology, economics, and other social sciences.

How long is Depth?

Depth by Michael Strevens is 537 pages long, and a total of 138,009 words.

This makes it 181% the length of the average book. It also has 169% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Depth Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 34 minutes to read Depth aloud.

What Reading Level is Depth?

Depth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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