Carl Gustav Peter Hempel (January 8 1905 – November 9 1997) was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation which was considered the standard model of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s.
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