Causality and explanation / Wesley C. Salmon.

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Renowned for his scholarly contributions to the philosophy of science, Salmon has collected in this volume 26 of his essays on subjects related to causality and explanation, written between 1971-1995. Six of the essays are previously unpublished.

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Uniform Title:	Oxford University Press on-line.
Main Author:	Salmon, Wesley C.
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:	Oxford University Press on-line.
Subjects:	Electronic books. Science > Philosophy. Science > Methodology. Causality (Physics) Explanation.
Genre:	Electronic books.
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Physical Description:	xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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505	0	0	\|g pt. I. \|t Introductory Essays: Causality, Determinism, and Explanation. \|g 1. \|t A New Look at Causality. \|g 2. \|t Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Science. \|g 3. \|t Comets, Pollen, and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation. \|g 4. \|t Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification. \|g 5. \|t The Importance of Scientific Understanding \|g pt. II. \|t Scientific Explanation. \|g 6. \|t A Third Dogma of Empiricism. \|g 7. \|t Causal and Theoretical Explanation. \|g 8. \|t Why Ask, "Why?"?: An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation. \|g 9. \|t Deductivism Visited and Revisited. \|g 10. \|t Explanatory Asymmetry: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grunbaum from His Friend and Colleague. \|g 11. \|t Van Fraassen on Explanation / \|r Wesley C. Salmon and Philip Kitcher \|g pt. III. \|t Causality. \|g 12. \|t An "At At" Theory of Causal Influence. \|g 13. \|t Causal Propensities: Statistical Causality versus Aleatory Causality. \|g 14. \|t Probabilistic Causality. \|g 15. \|t Intuitions Good and Not So Good. \|g 16. \|t Causality without Counterfactuals. \|g 17. \|t Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics \|g pt. IV. \|t Concise Overviews. \|g 18. \|t Causality: Production and Propagation. \|g 19. \|t Scientific Explanation: How We Got from There to Here. \|g 20. \|t Scientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions \|g pt. V. \|t Applications to Other Disciplines: Archaeology and Anthropology, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Physics. \|g 21. \|t Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation / \|r Wesley C. Salmon and Merrilee H. Salmon. \|g 22. \|t Causality in Archaeological Explanation. \|g 23. \|t Explanation in Archaeology: An Update. \|g 24. \|t The Formulation of Why Questions. \|g 25. \|t Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy That Did Not Occur. \|g 26. \|t Dreams of a Famous Physicist: An Apology for Philosophy of Science.
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