According to modern physics, many objectively improbable events actually occur, such as the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive atoms. Because of high levels of improbability, scientists are often at a loss to explain such phenomena. In this main essay of this book, Wesley Salmon offers a solution to scientific explanation based on the concept of statistical relevance (the S-R model). In this vein, the other two essays herein discuss "Statistical Relevance vs. Statistical Inference, " and "Explanation and Information."
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<b>Wesley C. Salmon</b> (1925–2001) was University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, past president of the Philosophy of Science Association, and the author of numerous books, including <i>Four Decades of Scientific Explanation; Space, Time, and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction</i>; and <i>Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World.</i>
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