Explanation in the special sciences : the case of biology and history / Marie I. Kaiser [and others], editors.

Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.

x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : points of contact between biology and history / Marie I. Kaiser and Daniel Plenge -- General issues on explanation -- The ontic account of scientific explanation / Carl F. Craver -- Explanation in the biological sciences -- Causal graphs and biological mechanisms / Alexander Gebharter and Marie I. Kaiser -- Semiotic explanation in the biological sciences / Ulrich Krohs -- Mechanisms, patho-mechanisms, and the explanation of disease in scientifically based clinical medicine / G. Müller-Strahl -- The generalizations of biology : historical and contingent? / Alexander Reutlinger -- Evolutionary explanations and the role of mechanisms / Gerhard Schurz -- Explanation in the historical sciences -- Explaining roman history : a case study / Stephan Berry -- Causal explanation and historical meaning : how to solve the problem of the specific historical relation between events / Doris Gerber -- Do historians study the mechanisms of history? : a sketch / Daniel Plenge -- Philosophy of history : metaphysics and epistemology / Oliver R. Scholz -- Causal explanations of historical trends / Derek D. Turner -- Bridging the two disciplines -- Aspects of human historiographie explanation : a view from the philosophy of science / Stuart Glennan -- History and the sciences / Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- Explanation and intervention in coupled human and natural systems / Daniel Steel -- Biology and natural history : what makes the difference? / Aviezer Tucker.