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100 1 $aSalmon, Wesley C.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046451
245 10 $aCausality and explanation /$cWesley C. Salmon.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1998.
300 $axiv, 434 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 405-415) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tIntroductory Essays: Causality, Determinism, and Explanation.$g1.$tA New Look at Causality.$g2.$tDeterminism and Indeterminism in Modern Science.$g3.$tComets, Pollen, and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation.$g4.$tScientific Explanation: Causation and Unification.$g5.$tThe Importance of Scientific Understanding --$gPt. II.$tScientific Explanation.$g6.$tA Third Dogma of Empiricism.$g7.$tCausal and Theoretical Explanation.$g8.$tWhy Ask, "Why?"?: An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation.$g9.$tDeductivism Visited and Revisited.$g10.$tExplanatory Assymetry: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grunbaum from His Friend and Colleague.$g11.$tVan Fraassen on Explanation /$rWesley C. Salmon and Philip Kitcher --$gPt. III.$tCausality.$g12.$tAn "At-At" Theory of Causal Influence.$g13.$tCausal Propensities: Statistical Causality versus Aleatory Causality.$g14.$tProbabilistic Causality.$g15.$tIntuitions - Good and Not-So-Good.$g16.$tCausality without Counterfactuals.
505 80 $g17.$tIndeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics --$gPt. IV.$tConcise Overviews.$g18.$tCausality: Production and Propagation.$g19.$tScientific Explanation: How We Got from There to Here.$g20.$tScientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions --$gPt. V.$tApplications to Other Disciplines: Archaeology and Anthropology, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Physics.$g21.$tAlternative Models of Scientific Explanation /$rWesley C. Salmon and Merrilee H. Salmon.$g22.$tCausality in Archaeological Explanation.$g23.$tExplanation in Archaeology: An Update.$g24.$tThe Formulation of Why-Questions.$g25.$tQuasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy That Did Not Occur.$g26.$tDreams of a Famous Physicist: An Apology for Philosophy of Science.
520 $aFor over two decades Wesley Salmon has helped to shape the course of debate in philosophy of science. He is a major contributor to the philosophical discussion of problems associated with causality and the author of two influential books on scientific explanation. This volume collects twenty-six of Salmon's essays, including seven that have never before been published and others difficult to find.
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582
650 0 $aScience$xMethodology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118577
650 0 $aCausality (Physics)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021458
650 0 $aExplanation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046453
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