Causality and explanation:
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...
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| Summary: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 434 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0195108639 0195108647 |
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UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 PART I. INTRODUCTORY
ESSAYS: CAUSALITY, DETERMINISM, AND EXPLANATION 11 1. A NEW LOOK AT
CAUSALITY 13 2. DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM IN MODERN SCIENCE 25 3.
COMETS, POLLEN, AND DREAMS: SOME REFLECTIONS ON SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
50 4. SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION: CAUSATION AND UNIFICATION 68 5. THE
IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING 79 PART II. SCIENTIFIC
EXPLANATION 93 6. A THIRD DOGMA OF EMPIRICISM 95 7. CAUSAL AND
THEORETICAL EXPLANATION 108 8. WHY ASK, WHY? ?: AN INQUIRY CONCERNING
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION 125 9. DEDUCTIVISM VISITED AND REVISITED 142 10.
EXPLANATORY ASYMMETRY: A LETTER TO PROFESSOR ADOLF GRIINBAUM ,FROM HIS
FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE 164 XIV CONTENTS 11. VAN FRAASSEN ON EXPLANATION
178 WITH PHILIP KITCHER PART III. CAUSALITY 191 12. AN AT-AT THEORY OF
CAUSAL INFLUENCE 193 13. CAUSAL PROPENSITIES: STATISTICAL CAUSALITY
VERSUS ALEATORY CAUSALITY 200 14. PROBABILISTIC CAUSALITY 208 15.
INTUITIONS*GOOD AND NOT-SO-GOOD 233 16. CAUSALITY WITHOUT
COUNTERFACTUALS 248 17. INDETERMINACY, INDETERMINISM, AND QUANTUM
MECHANICS 261 PART IV. CONCISE OVERVIEWS 283 18. CAUSALITY: PRODUCTION
AND PROPAGATION 285 19. SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION: HOW WE GOT FROM THERE TO
HERE 302 20. SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION: THREE BASIC CONCEPTIONS 320 PART V.
APPLICATIONS TO OTHER DISCIPLINES: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY,
ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY, AND PHYSICS 331 21. ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION 333 WITH MERRILEE H. SALMON 22. CAUSALITY IN
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION 347 23. EXPLANATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY: AN UPDATE
356 24. THE FORMULATION OF WHY-QUESTIONS 364 25. QUASARS, CAUSALITY, AND
GEOMETRY: A SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY THAT DID NOT OCCUR 369 26. DREAMS OF
A FAMOUS PHYSICIST: AN APOLOGY FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 385 REFERENCES
405 INDEX 417
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