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- catalog abstract "For 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.".
- catalog contributor b10426516.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "For 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-415) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Introductory Essays: Causality, Determinism, and Explanation. 1. A New Look at Causality. 2. Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Science. 3. Comets, Pollen, and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation. 4. Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification. 5. The Importance of Scientific Understanding pt. II. Scientific Explanation. 6. A Third Dogma of Empiricism. 7. Causal and Theoretical Explanation. 8. Why Ask, "Why?"?: An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation. 9. Deductivism Visited and Revisited. 10. Explanatory Asymmetry: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grunbaum from His Friend and Colleague. 11. Van Fraassen on Explanation / Wesley C. Salmon and Philip Kitcher pt. III. Causality. 12. An "At At" Theory of Causal Influence. 13. Causal Propensities: Statistical Causality versus Aleatory Causality. 14. Probabilistic Causality. 15. Intuitions Good and Not So Good. 16. Causality without Counterfactuals. 17. Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics pt. IV. Concise Overviews. 18. Causality: Production and Propagation. 19. Scientific Explanation: How We Got from There to Here. 20. Scientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions pt. V. Applications to Other Disciplines: Archaeology and Anthropology, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Physics. 21. Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation / Wesley C. Salmon and Merrilee H. Salmon. 22. Causality in Archaeological Explanation. 23. Explanation in Archaeology: An Update. 24. The Formulation of Why Questions. 25. Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy That Did Not Occur. 26. Dreams of a Famous Physicist: An Apology for Philosophy of Science.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 434 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Causality and explanation.".
- catalog identifier "0195108639 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195108647 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Causality and explanation.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Causality and explanation.".
- catalog subject "501 21".
- catalog subject "Causality (Physics)".
- catalog subject "Explanation.".
- catalog subject "Q175 .S2337 1998".
- catalog subject "Science Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Introductory Essays: Causality, Determinism, and Explanation. 1. A New Look at Causality. 2. Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Science. 3. Comets, Pollen, and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation. 4. Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification. 5. The Importance of Scientific Understanding pt. II. Scientific Explanation. 6. A Third Dogma of Empiricism. 7. Causal and Theoretical Explanation. 8. Why Ask, "Why?"?: An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation. 9. Deductivism Visited and Revisited. 10. Explanatory Asymmetry: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grunbaum from His Friend and Colleague. 11. Van Fraassen on Explanation / Wesley C. Salmon and Philip Kitcher pt. III. Causality. 12. An "At At" Theory of Causal Influence. 13. Causal Propensities: Statistical Causality versus Aleatory Causality. 14. Probabilistic Causality. 15. Intuitions Good and Not So Good. 16. Causality without Counterfactuals. 17. Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics pt. IV. Concise Overviews. 18. Causality: Production and Propagation. 19. Scientific Explanation: How We Got from There to Here. 20. Scientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions pt. V. Applications to Other Disciplines: Archaeology and Anthropology, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Physics. 21. Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation / Wesley C. Salmon and Merrilee H. Salmon. 22. Causality in Archaeological Explanation. 23. Explanation in Archaeology: An Update. 24. The Formulation of Why Questions. 25. Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy That Did Not Occur. 26. Dreams of a Famous Physicist: An Apology for Philosophy of Science.".
- catalog title "Causality and explanation / Wesley C. Salmon.".
- catalog type "text".