Causality and Explanation

New York, US: Oxford University Press USA (1997)
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"A rich collection. Since it holds a number of introductory pieces along with advanced essays and review articles, the volume will be accessible to a broad audience and will work well in philosophy of science courses....Essential."--Lawrence Sklar, University of Michigan.

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1998

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Q175.S2337 1998

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9780195108644   0195108647

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10.1023/a:1005543029621

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A New Look at Causality.Wesley C. Salmon
A Third Dogma of Empiricism.Wesley C. Salmon
Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon & Merrilee H. Salmon
An “At‐At” Theory of Causal Influence.Wesley C. Salmon
Causal Propensities.Wesley C. Salmon
Causal and Theoretical Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon
Causality.Wesley C. Salmon
Causality Without Counterfactuals.Wesley C. Salmon
Causality in Archaeological Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon
Comets, Pollen, and Dreams Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon
Deductivism Visited and Revisited.Wesley C. Salmon
Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Science.Wesley C. Salmon
Dreams of a Famous Physicist.Wesley C. Salmon
Explanation in Archaeology.Wesley C. Salmon
Explanatory Asymmetry.Wesley C. Salmon
Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics.Wesley C. Salmon
Introduction.Wesley C. Salmon
Intuitions—Good and Not‐So‐Good.Wesley C. Salmon
Probabilistic Causality.Wesley C. Salmon
Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon
Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon
Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon
The Formulation of Why‐Questions.Wesley C. Salmon
The Importance of Scientific Understanding.Wesley C. Salmon
Van Fraassen on Explanation.Philip Kitcher & Wesley C. Salmon
Why Ask, “Why?”?Wesley C. Salmon

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