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According to modern physics, many objectively improbable events actually occur, such as the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive atoms. Because o...
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 d...
The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively sta...
As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument--yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not all deductive arguments are qualifie...
Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of t...
50th Anniversary Edition
After its publication in 1967, The Foundations of Scientific Inference taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction,...
Not since Ernest Nagel’s 1939 monograph on the theory of probability has there been a comprehensive elementary survey of the philosophical problems ...
Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon
The contributions to this special collection concern issues and problems discussed in or related to the work of Wesley C. Salmon. Salmon has long been...
This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection Causality And Explanation (OUP...
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Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation
Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recog nised - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of schola...