Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World /

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The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal,...

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Autor principal: Salmon, Wesley C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Science > Methodology.
Science > Philosophy.
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Aristotle.
Bohr, Niels.
Bromberger, Sylvain.
Compton scattering.
Davisson-Germer experiment.
Humean problems.
Jackson, Reggie.
King, John L.
Laplacian explanation.
action-by-contact.
aleatory explanation.
alpha radiation.
behaviorism.
bone, worked.
cancer.
carriage accident.
causal relation.
collective (von Mises).
contrast class.
disjunctive dilution.
effective calculability.
energeticism.
epidemiology.
expectation.
explanans-partition.
explanans.
first signal, light as.
forecast, reliable.
gambling system.
gravitational radiation.
high probability requirement.
homogeneity.
ignorance.
improbable event.
inferential version.
lambda-definability.
leukemia.
logical empiricism.
magnifying glass.
materialism.
microphysical entities.
microscope.
mononucleosis.
necessary connection.
nonrandomness.
operationism.
pair production/annihilation.
partial entailment.
plausibility.
presupposition.
psychotherapy.
quantum domain.
recursiveness.
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