Wesley C. Salmon

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Wesley C. Salmon is affiliated with the following schools: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of California, Los Angeles, Wayne State University, University of Pittsburgh

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According to Wikipedia, Wesley Charles Salmon was an American philosopher of science renowned for his work on the nature of scientific explanation. He also worked on confirmation theory, trying to explicate how probability theory via inductive logic might help confirm and choose hypotheses. Yet most prominently, Salmon was a realist about causality in scientific explanation, although his realist explanation of causality drew ample criticism. Still, his books on scientific explanation itself were landmarks of the 20th century's philosophy of science, and solidified recognition of causality's important roles in scientific explanation, whereas causality itself has evaded satisfactory elucidation by anyone.

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Wesley C. Salmon's Published Works

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Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World (1988) (2289)
Four decades of scientific explanation (1989) (1035)
Causality and Explanation (1998) (794)
The foundations of scientific inference (1967) (542)
Knowledge in Flux (1991) (486)
Statistical explanation & statistical relevance (1971) (340)
Causality without Counterfactuals (1994) (296)
Causality and Explanation: A Reply to Two Critiques (1997) (185)
Zeno's Paradoxes, (1970) (160)
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science (1989) (119)
Van Fraassen on Explanation (1987) (108)
Why Ask, ‘Why?’? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation (1978) (106)
Rationaltiy and objectivity in science, or, Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes (1990) (95)
Hans Reichenbach : logical empiricist (1979) (81)
Scientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions (1984) (76)
Confirmation and relevance (1975) (72)
Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories (1994) (60)
Causality: Production and Propagation (1980) (48)
An "At-At" Theory of Causal Influence (1977) (48)
The Appraisal of Theories: Kuhn Meets Bayes (1990) (46)
Explanation and Confirmation: A Bayesian Critique of Inference to the Best Explanation (2001) (45)
The Limitations of Deductivism (1988) (45)
On Vindicating Induction (1963) (43)
Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation (1979) (42)
Should we attempt to justify induction? (1957) (41)
Rational Prediction* (1981) (40)
Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2003) (40)
The Philosophical Significance of the One-Way Speed of Light (1977) (40)
Hans Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction (1991) (39)
The Justification of Inductive Rules of Inference (1968) (38)
The Spirit of Logical Empiricism: Carl G. Hempel's Role in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science (1999) (35)
Propensities: A discussion review (1979) (33)
Scientific explanation: causation and unification (1990) (32)
The Conventionality of Simultaneity (1969) (31)
Hans Reichenbach Selected Writings 1909–1953 (1978) (30)
Modern Philosophy Of Science (1959) (30)
Space, Time, And Motion (1975) (28)
Religion and science: A new look at Hume's Dialogues (1978) (28)
Reflections of a Bashful Bayesian: A Reply to Peter Lipton (2001) (26)
A Third Dogma of Empiricism (1977) (26)
The Value of Scientific Understanding (1993) (26)
Space, Time and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction. (1976) (24)
The Status of Prior Probabilities in Statistical Explanation (1965) (24)
Conflicting Conceptions of Scientific Explanation (1985) (23)
Dynamic Rationality: Propensity, Probability, and Credence (1988) (23)
Partial Entailment as a Basis for Inductive Logic (1969) (23)
Probability and Causality: Essays In Honor Of Wesley C. Salmon (1987) (20)
The philosophy of Hans Reichenbach (2004) (20)
"Exists" as a predicate (1957) (19)
Carnap's Inductive Logic (1967) (18)
The Uniformity of Nature (1953) (17)
Reality and Rationality (2005) (17)
The Causal Structure of the World (2010) (15)
John Venn’s Logic of Chance (1980) (14)
The Predictive Inference (1957) (14)
The Importance of Scientific Understanding (1998) (13)
Unfinished business: The problem of induction (1978) (11)
The Short Run (1955) (11)
Causal propensities: Statistical causality vs. aleatory causality (1990) (11)
Objectively homogeneous reference classes (1977) (11)
The Curvature of Physical Space (1977) (10)
Regular Rules of Induction (1956) (9)
Deductivism Visited and Revisited (1998) (8)
Ornithology in a Cubical World: Reichenbach on Scientific Realism (1999) (8)
On the Austrian Roots of Logical Empiricism: The First Vienna Circle (2003) (6)
Intuitions — Good and Not-So-Good (1988) (6)
Comets, Pollen and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation (1982) (6)
What? where? when? why? : essays on induction, space and time, explanation : inspired by the work of Wesley C. Salmon and celebrating his first visit to Australia, September-December 1978 (1982) (6)
Laws, Modalities and Counterfactuals (1977) (6)
Determinism and Indeterminism in Modern Science (1998) (6)
Hans Reichenbach's vindication of induction (1991) (6)
Causality in Archaeological Explanation (1998) (5)
Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G. Greeno’s ‘Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation’ (1970) (5)
Statis tical Explanation and Causality (2004) (5)
Carl G. Hempel on the Rationality of Science (1983) (5)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 1] Introduction (1989) (5)
Introduction: The Context of These Essays (1969) (5)
Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science (1990) (4)
Explanation in Archaeology: An Update (1992) (4)
A New Look at Causality (1998) (4)
Robert Leslie Ellis and the Frequency Theory (1980) (4)
The Foundations of Scientific Inference. (1969) (4)
Reply to Lehman (1973) (4)
Probabilistic Explanation: Introduction (1982) (3)
The frequency interpretation and antecedent probabilities (1953) (3)
Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief. Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. (1967) (3)
Space, time, and motion : a philosophical introduction (1977) (3)
Bayes's Theorum and the history of science (1970) (3)
Symposium: On Events and Event-Descriptions (1969) (3)
What Happens in the Long Run (1965) (3)
Indeterminism and Epistemic Relativization (1977) (2)
Reply to Kyburg (1965) (2)
The Formulation of Why‐Questions (1998) (2)
In Praise of Relevance (1981) (2)
Comments on ‘Hempel's ambiguity’ by J. Alberto Coffa (1974) (2)
Hempel's Conception of Inductive Inference in Inductive-Statistical Explanation (1977) (2)
Indeterminacy, Indeterminism, and Quantum Mechanics (1998) (1)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 5] The fourth decade (1978-87): a time of maturation (1989) (1)
Book Review:Probability, Statistics and Truth Richard von Mises, Hilda Geiringer (1959) (1)
Comments on Clark Glymour's Explanations, Tests, Unity and Necessity (1980) (1)
Use, mention, and linguistic invariance (1966) (1)
EXPLANATORINESS: CAUSE VERSUS CRAIG (2005) (1)
Scientific Inference. Harold Jeffreys (1957) (1)
Experimental atheism (1979) (1)
Publications: An Annotated Bibliography (1988) (1)
Explaining Things Probabilistically (2001) (1)
Causal and Theoretical Explanation (1998) (1)
Reply to Pettijohn (1956) (1)
Commit It Then to the Flames (2003) (1)
Confirmation and Relevance , Wesley C. Salmon, "partial Entailment as a Basis for Inductive Logic," In (2007) (1)
Chapter 2 Causation (2003) (1)
Book Review:The Logical Problem of Induction Georg Henrik von Wright (1959) (1)
Quasars, Causality, and Geometry (1998) (1)
Words of Appreciation (1999) (1)
INTERNATIONAL U NION OF THE H ISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY O F S CIENCE DIVISION O F L OGIC, M ETHODOLOGY A ND P HILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (1983) (0)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 2] The first decade (1948-57): Peace in the valley (but some trouble in the foothills) (1989) (0)
Note on Russell's Anticipations (1975) (0)
Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G. Greeno's 'Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation' (1970) (0)
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science Rational Prediction (2008) (0)
Barker's theory of the absolute (1959) (0)
Probability and Infinity (1976) (0)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 6] Conclusion: peaceful coexistence? (1989) (0)
Back Matter (1971) (0)
Empiricism: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. This volume presents seventeen essays (not eleven, as the publisher inexplicably claims) by a diverse group of philosophers that arose out of a conference in (2004) (0)
Dreams of a Famous Physicist (1998) (0)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 3] The second decade (1958-67): Manifest destiny--expansion and conflict (1989) (0)
Induction and Intuition: Comments on Ackermann’s ‘Problems’ (1969) (0)
Philosopher in a Physics Course (1977) (0)
Fundamental Problems in the Concept of Randomness (1974) (0)
The Foundations of Science. Sheldon J. Lachman (1957) (0)
Coherence and the Sum Condition (1976) (0)
Correction: Scientific Explanation and Four Decades of Scientific Explan (1991) (0)
Book Review:Frontiers of Science and Philosophy Robert G. Colodny (1964) (0)
EMPIRICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT THE ABSOLUTE (1967) (0)
Infinity and the Sum Condition (1976) (0)
Fundamental Problems in the Concept of Randomness. Dedication to Leonard J. Savage (1972) (0)
An Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences. R. HarreThe General Science of Nature. Vincent Edward SmithThe Nature of Science. David Greenwood (1962) (0)
Elemental Concepts of Science: Philosophical Foundations of Physics . An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Rudolf Carnap. Martin Gardner, Ed. Basic Books, New York, 1966. 310 pp., illus. $6.50. (1967) (0)
Logic and Probability (1976) (0)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 4] The third decade (1968-77): deepening differences (1989) (0)
Two Part I: Qualitative Confirmation (0)
Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Problems of Space and Time . Adolf Grünbaum. Knopf, New York, 1963. xii + 408 pp. Illus. $10.75. (1965) (0)
Book Review:The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity Marcello Pera, Jonathan Mandelbaum (1995) (0)
The Natures of Judgment and Belief (1976) (0)
Elemental Concepts of Science. (Book Reviews: Philosophical Foundations of Physics. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science) (1967) (0)
Scientific Understanding in the Twentieth Century (2001) (0)

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