It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read The Nature of Explanation by Peter Achinstein
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Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself. From that act, a "product" emerges: an explanation. To understand what that product is, as well as how it can be evaluated in the sciences, reference must be made to the concept of the explaining act. Following an account of the explaining act, its product, and the evaluation of explanations, the theory is brought to bear on these issues: Why have the standard models of scientific explanation been unsuccessful, and can there be a model of the type sought? What is causal explanation,...
The Nature of Explanation by Peter Achinstein is 394 pages long, and a total of 100,076 words.
This makes it 133% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read The Nature of Explanation aloud.
The Nature of Explanation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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