<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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Wesley C. Salmon: Four Decades of Scientific Explanation
As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument-yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not all deductive arguments are qualified explanations. The validity of the explanation mu …
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Wesley C. Salmon: The Foundations of Scientific Inference
After its publication in 1967, <i>The Foundations of Scientific Inference</i> taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction, the interpretation of probabi …
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Wesley C. Salmon: Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
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. Wesle …
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Paolo Parrini & Wesley C. Salmon: Logical Empiricism
Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation between evidence and theory, and the nature of sci …
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Wesley C. Salmon: Statistical Explanation and Statistical Relevance
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 of …
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Wesley C. Salmon & Gereon Wolters: Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories
<i>Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories</i>, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenba …
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