Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Audio recording of a 1963 lecture by Carl G. Hempel on the nature of scientific explanation. This was the 11th in a series of 17 lectures given on the philosophy of science from Voice of America’s “Forum: The Arts & Sciences in Mid-Century America”. The series includes Willard Van Orman Quine, Max Black, Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman, Paul Feyerabend, Sidney Morgenbesser, Patrick Suppes, and others.

00:00 Intro
01:05 Talk

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