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Causality and Explanation
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Wesley C. Salmon
Publication date:
May 07 1998
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Oxford University Press
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May 07 1998
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Book chapters
pp. 3
Introduction
pp. 13
A New Look at Causality
pp. 25
Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Science
pp. 50
Comets, Pollen, and Dreams Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation
pp. 68
Scientific Explanation
pp. 79
The Importance of Scientific Understanding
pp. 95
A Third Dogma of Empiricism
pp. 108
Causal and Theoretical Explanation
pp. 125
Why Ask, “Why?”?
pp. 142
Deductivism Visited and Revisited
pp. 164
Explanatory Asymmetry
pp. 178
Van Fraassen on Explanation
pp. 193
An “At‐At” Theory of Causal Influence
pp. 200
Causal Propensities
pp. 208
Probabilistic Causality
pp. 233
Intuitions—Good and Not‐So‐Good
pp. 248
Causality Without Counterfactuals
pp. 261
Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics
pp. 285
Causality
pp. 302
Scientific Explanation
pp. 320
Scientific Explanation
pp. 333
Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation
pp. 347
Causality in Archaeological Explanation
pp. 356
Explanation in Archaeology
pp. 364
The Formulation of Why‐Questions
pp. 369
Quasars, Causality, and Geometry
pp. 385
Dreams of a Famous Physicist
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