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Author / Creator:Salmon, Wesley C.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:xiv, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2938409
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ISBN:0195108639 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195108647 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-415) and index.
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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 Assymetry: 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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