(Ebook) Causality and Explanation 1st edition by Wesley Salmon 0195108647 978-0195108644

(Ebook) Causality and Explanation 1st edition by Wesley Salmon 0195108647 978-0195108644

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Author: Wesley C. Salmon

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 long-awaited volume collects twenty- six of Salmon's essays, including seven that have never before been published and others difficult to find. Part I comprises five introductory essays that presuppose no formal training in philosophy of science and form a background for subsequent essays. Parts II and III contain Salmon's seminal work on scientific explanation and causality. Part IV offers survey articles that feature advanced material but remain accessible to those outside philosophy of science. Essays in Part V address specific issues in particular scientific disciplines, namely, archaeology and anthropology, astrophysics and cosmology, and physics.

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Part I Introductory Essays: Causality, Determinism, and Explanation
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Expand1 A New Look at CausalityGet accessArrow
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Expand2 Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern ScienceGet accessArrow
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Expand3 Comets, Pollen, and Dreams Some Reflections on Scientific ExplanationGet accessArrow
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Expand4 Scientific Explanation: Causation and UnificationGet accessArrow
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Expand5 The Importance of Scientific UnderstandingGet accessArrow
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Part II Scientific Explanation
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6 A Third Dogma of EmpiricismGet accessArrow
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Expand7 Causal and Theoretical ExplanationGet accessArrow
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8 Why Ask, “Why?”? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific ExplanationGet accessArrow
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Expand9 Deductivism Visited and RevisitedGet accessArrow
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Expand10 Explanatory Asymmetry: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grünbaum from His Friend and ColleagueGet accessArrow
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Expand11 Van Fraassen on ExplanationGet accessArrow
Wesley C. Salmon and Philip Kitcher
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Part III Causality
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12 An “At‐At” Theory of Causal InfluenceGet accessArrow
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13 Causal Propensities: Statistical Causality versus Aleatory CausalityGet accessArrow
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Expand14 Probabilistic CausalityGet accessArrow
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15 Intuitions—Good and Not‐So‐GoodGet accessArrow
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Expand16 Causality Without CounterfactualsGet accessArrow
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Expand17 Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum MechanicsGet accessArrow
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Part IV Concise Overviews
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Expand18 Causality: Production and PropagationGet accessArrow
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Expand19 Scientific Explanation: How We Got from There to HereGet accessArrow
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Expand20 Scientific Explanation: Three Basic ConceptionsGet accessArrow
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Part V Applications to Other Disciplines: Archaeology and Anthropology, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Physics
21 Alternative Models of Scientific ExplanationGet accessArrow
22 Causality in Archaeological ExplanationGet accessArrow
24 The Formulation of Why‐QuestionsGet accessArrow

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