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Hardcover Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World Book

ISBN: 0691072930

ISBN13: 9780691072937

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, and ontic. He argues that the prevailing view (a version of the epistemic conception) is untenable and that the modal conception is scientifically out-dated...

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