Volume 13 (1989): Scientific explanation

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Edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon

Is a new consensus emerging in the philosophy of science? This is the question to which a year-long workshop was devoted at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science during the academic year 1985-1986. ... Although the present volume emerges from an NEH institute conducted at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science, it is in no sense a "proceeding" of that workshop. --Preface

Companion volume to Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science 14, Scientific theories

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Scientific explanation. Preliminaries
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989)
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 1] Introduction
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Wesley C.
First part of Four decades of scientific explanation, by Wesley C. Salmon. All six parts of Salmon's article are included in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Volume 13 (1989), available from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 2] The first decade (1948-57): Peace in the valley (but some trouble in the foothills)
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Wesley C.
Second part of Four decades of scientific explanation, by Wesley C. Salmon. All six parts of Salmon's article are included in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Volume 13 (1989), available from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 3] The second decade (1958-67): Manifest destiny--expansion and conflict
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Wesley C.
Third part of Four decades of scientific explanation, by Wesley C. Salmon. All six parts of Salmon's article are included in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Volume 13 (1989), available from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 4] The third decade (1968-77): deepening differences
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Wesley C.
Fourth part of Four decades of scientific explanation, by Wesley C. Salmon. All six parts of Salmon's article are included in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Volume 13 (1989), available from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 5] The fourth decade (1978-87): a time of maturation
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Wesley C.
Fifth part of Four decades of scientific explanation, by Wesley C. Salmon. All six parts of Salmon's article are included in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Volume 13 (1989), available from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
Four decades of scientific explanation. [Part 6] Conclusion: peaceful coexistence?
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Wesley C.
Sixth part of Four decades of scientific explanation, by Wesley C. Salmon. All six parts of Salmon's article are included in Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Volume 13 (1989), available from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
Explanation and metaphysical controversy
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Railton, Peter
Explanation: in search of the rationale
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Sintonen, Matti
Scientific explanation: the causes, some of the causes, and nothing but the causes
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Humphreys, Paul W.
Pure, mixed, and spurious probabilities and their significance for a reductionist theory of causation
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Papineau, David
Capacities and abstractions
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Cartwright, Nancy
The causal mechanical model of explanation
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Woodward, James
Explanation in the social sciences
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Salmon, Merrrilee H.
Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989) Kitcher, Philip