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"Statistical Explanation and Statistical Relevance"
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"Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World"
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"Four Decades of Scientific Explanation"
In this book Salmon reviews the various models for scientific explanation proposed in response Hempel's ground breaking work in 1948. He examines the revisions to Hempel's deductive-nomological (D-N) model in the four decades which followed. The explanatory models he considers are the deductive-nomological, inductive-statistical, deductive-statistical and statistical-relevance. Salmon argues that "every legitimate scientific explanation belongs to one of these four sectors" (10). -
Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification
Salmon reflects on the development of explanation and causation as developed by Kitcher, Friedman and Railton, and offers his "two concepts of explanation" (qtd. in Balashov and Rosenberg 102). He contrasts the general explanation of a "world-picture" as it relates to our predictive success, and the fundamental causes which drive these mechanisms (Salmon 1990). This duality, he argues, prevents us from forming any simple unified theory of explanation.