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Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
Engelsk Paperback
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Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
Engelsk Paperback

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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. Significantly revising aspects of his earlier work, he defends a causal/mechanical theory that is a version of the ontic conception.


Professor Salmon''s theory furnishes a robust argument for scientific realism akin to the argument that convinced twentieth-century physical scientists of the existence of atoms and molecules. To do justice to such notions as irreducibly statistical laws and statistical explanation, he offers a novel account of physical randomness. The transition from the "reviewed view" of scientific explanation (that explanations are arguments) to the causal/mechanical model requires fundamental rethinking of basic explanatory concepts.


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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
321
ISBN-13:
9780691101705
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0691101701
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Udg. Dato:
21 dec 1984
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
182mm
Forlag:
Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato:
21 dec 1984
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