Scientific explanation and the causal structure of the world /
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,...
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Langue: | anglais |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
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Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv173f2gh |