Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

by Wesley C. Salmon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691072930
• ISBN13: 9780691072937
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.