Wesley C. Salmon (salmon-wc)

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Bibliography

Grünbaum, Adolf and Salmon, Wesley C. 1988. The Limits of Deductivism. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Salmon, Wesley C. 2001. “Statistical Explanation.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 470–479. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Kitcher, Philip and Salmon, Wesley C. 1987. “Reviving the Sociology of Science.” The Journal of Philosophy 84: 315–330.
Kitcher, Philip and Salmon, Wesley C., eds. 1989. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIII: Scientific Explanation. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Nakhnikian, George and Salmon, Wesley C. 1957. “ ‘Exists’ as a Predicate.” The Philosophical Review 66: 535–542.
Salmon, Merrilee H., Earman, John S., Glymour, Clark N., Lennox, James G., Machamer, Peter K., McGuire, James E., Norton, John D., Salmon, Wesley C. and Schaffner, Kenneth F., eds. 1999. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1953. “The Frequency Interpretation and Antecedent Probabilities.” Philosophical Studies 4(3): 44–48.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1957. “Should we Attempt to Justify Induction?” Philosophical Studies 8(3): 33–48.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1959. “Barker’s Theory of the Absolute.” Philosophical Studies 10(4): 50–53.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1963. Logic. Foundations of Philosophy Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Second edition: Salmon, W. C. (1973).
Salmon, Wesley C. 1966a. “The Foundations of Scientific Inference.” in Mind and Cosmos, edited by Robert G. Colodny, pp. 135–275. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 3. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprint: Colodny (1983).
Salmon, Wesley C. 1966b. “Verifiability and Logic.” in Mind, Matter, and Method: Essays in Philosophy and Science in Honor of Herbert Feigl, edited by Paul K. Feyerabend and Grover Maxwell, pp. 354–376. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1966c. “Use, Mention, and Linguistic Invariance.” Philosophical Studies 17(1–2): 13–18.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1968. “The Justification of Inductive Rules of Inference.” in The Problem of Inductive Logic (Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965, volume 2), pp. 24–43. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics n. 51. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1969a. “Partial Entailment as a Basis for Inductive Logic.” in Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. A Tribute on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Nicholas Rescher, pp. 47–82. Synthese Library n. 24. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1969b. “Induction and Intuition: Comments on Ackermann (1969).” in Philosophical Logic, edited by John W. Davis, D. T. Hockney, and W. Kent Wilson, pp. 158–163. Synthese Library n. 20. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-010-9614-0.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1969c. “Comment [on Martin (1969)].” in Fact and Existence. Proceedings of the University of Western Ontario Philosophy Colloguium, 1966, edited by Joseph Margolis, pp. 95–97. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Salmon, Wesley C., ed. 1970a. Zeno’s Paradoxes. 1st ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1970b. “Statistical Explanation.” in The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories. Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy, edited by Robert G. Colodny, pp. 173–232. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1970c. “Bayes’s Theorem and the History of Science.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume V: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, edited by Roger H. Stuewer, pp. 68–86. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1970d. “Introduction.” in Zeno’s Paradoxes, edited by Wesley C. Salmon, 1st ed., pp. 5–44. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc. Cited after the second edition, Salmon, W. C. (2001a).
Salmon, Wesley C. 1971a. Statistical Explanation and Statistical Relevance. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1971b. “Explanation and Relevance: Comments on Greeno (1971).” in PSA 1970: In Memory of Rudolf Carnap. Proceedings of the 1970 second Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Boston, Fall, 1970, edited by Roger C. Buck and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 27–39. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 8. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1973. Logic. 2nd ed. Foundations of Philosophy Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. First edition: Salmon, W. C. (1963).
Salmon, Wesley C. 1974a. “Memory and Perception in Human Knowledge.” in Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy, edited by George Nakhnikian, pp. 139–168. New York: Harper & Row.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1974b. “Russell on Scientific Inference or Will the Real Deductivist Please Stand Up?” in Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy, edited by George Nakhnikian, pp. 183–208. New York: Harper & Row.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1975a. Space, Time and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction. Encino, California: Dickenson Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1975b. “Theoretical Explanation.” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 118–145. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1975c. “Reply [to Mellor (1975) and Cohen (1975)].” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 160–183. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1975d. “Confirmation and Relevance.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VI: Induction, Probability and Confirmation, edited by Grover Maxwell and Robert M. Anderson Jr., pp. 3–36. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1976. “Clocks and Simultaneity in Special Relativity, Or, Which Twin Has the Timex?” in Motion and Time, Space and Matter, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Robert G. Turnbull, pp. 508–546. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1977a. “A Third Dogma of Empiricism.” in Logic, Foundations of Mathematics, and Computability Theory. Part One of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada, 1975, edited by Robert E. Butts and Jaakko Hintikka, pp. 149–166. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 9. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1977b. “The Curvature of Physical Space.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VIII: Foundations of Space-Time Theories, edited by John S. Earman, Clark N. Glymour, and John J. Stachel, pp. 281–302. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1977c. “A Third Dogma of Empiricism.” in Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics. Part Three of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada, 1975, edited by Robert E. Butts and Jaakko Hintikka, pp. 149–166. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 11. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C., ed. 1979a. Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist. Synthese Library n. 132. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1979b. “The Philosophy of Hans Reichenbach.” in Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist, edited by Wesley C. Salmon, pp. 1–84. Synthese Library n. 132. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1979c. “Why ask, ‘Why?’? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation.” in Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist, edited by Wesley C. Salmon, pp. 403–425. Synthese Library n. 132. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1979d. “Laws, Modalities and Counterfactuals.” in Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist, edited by Wesley C. Salmon, pp. 655–696. Synthese Library n. 132. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1981a. “Causality: Production and Propagation.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 49–69. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1981b. “John Venn’s Logic of Chance.” in Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics, and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science. Proceesings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. Volume II, edited by Jaakko Hintikka, David Gruender, and Evandro Agazzi, pp. 125–138. Synthese Library n. 146. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1981c. “Robert Leslie Ellis and the Frequency Theory.” in Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics, and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science. Proceesings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. Volume II, edited by Jaakko Hintikka, David Gruender, and Evandro Agazzi, pp. 139–146. Synthese Library n. 146. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1982a. “Comets, Pollen and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation.” in What? Where? When? Why? Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation, edited by Brian P. McLaughlin, pp. 155–178. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 1. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1982b. “Further Reflections.” in What? Where? When? Why? Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation, edited by Brian P. McLaughlin, pp. 231–280. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 1. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1983. “Probabilistic Explanation: Introduction.” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia and Invited Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 179–180. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1984. Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1985. “Scientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 293–305. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1988a. “Dynamic Rationality: Propensity, Probability, and Credence.” in Probability and Causality. Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon, edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 3–41. Synthese Library n. 192. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1988b. “Intuitions: Good and Not-So-Good [on Good (1988)].” in Causation, Chance, and Credence. Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, vol. 1, edited by Brian Skyrms and William L. Harper, pp. 51–72. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 41. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2863-3.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1988c. “Introduction.” in The Limits of Deductivism, pp. 1–18. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1988d. “Rational Prediction.” in The Limits of Deductivism, pp. 47–60. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1988e. “Deductivism Visited and Revisited.” in The Limits of Deductivism, pp. 95–127. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1989. “Four Decades of Scientific Explanation.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIII: Scientific Explanation, edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon, pp. 1–219. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Separate book publication: Salmon, W. C. (1990a).
Salmon, Wesley C. 1990a. Four Decades of Scientific Explanation. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. Separate book publication of Salmon, W. C. (1989), with a foreword by Paul Humphreys.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1990b. “Rationality and Objectivity in Science, or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 175–204. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1990c. “Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification.” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 22(66): 3–23.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1991. “The Appraisal of Theories: Kuhn Meets Bayes.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 325–332. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1992. “Explanation in Archaeology: An Update.” in Metaarchaeology. Reflections by Archaeologists and Philosophers, edited by Lester E. Embree, pp. 243–254. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 147. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1993. “On the Alleged Temporal Anisotropy of Explanation. A Letter to Professor Adolf Grünbaum.” in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by John S. Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher, pp. 229–248. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1994. “Causation without Counterfactuals.” Philosophy of Science 61: 297–312.
Salmon, Wesley C. 1998. Causality and Explanation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195108647.001.0001.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2000a. “Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy that should Have Happened but Didn’t.” in Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives, edited by Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera, and Aristides Baltas, pp. 254–270. New York: Oxford University Press.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2000b. “The Spirit of Logical Empiricism: Carl G. Hempel’s Role in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science.” in Science, Explanation, and Rationality. Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 309–324. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Salmon, Wesley C., ed. 2001a. Zeno’s Paradoxes. 2nd ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co. First edition: Salmon, W. C. (1970a).
Salmon, Wesley C. 2001b. “Explanation and Confirmation: A Bayesian Critique of Inference to the Best Explanation.” in Explanation. Theoretical Approaches and Applications, edited by Giora Hon and Sam S. Rakover, pp. 61–92. Synthese Library n. 302. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2001c. “Reflections of A Bashful Bayesian: A Reply to Lipton (2001).” in Explanation. Theoretical Approaches and Applications, edited by Giora Hon and Sam S. Rakover, pp. 121–136. Synthese Library n. 302. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2001d. “Logical Empiricism.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 233–242. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2001e. “Explaining Things Probabilistically.” The Monist 84(2): 208–217.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2002. “Causation.” in The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, edited by Richard M. Gale, pp. 19–42. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470998984.
Salmon, Wesley C. 2005. Reality and Rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Merrilee H. Salmon and Phil Dowe.
Salmon, Wesley C. and Wolters, Gereon, eds. 1994. Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Further References

Ackermann, Robert. 1969. “Some Problems of Inductive Logic.” in Philosophical Logic, edited by John W. Davis, D. T. Hockney, and W. Kent Wilson, pp. 135–151. Synthese Library n. 20. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-010-9614-0.
Cohen, Laurence Jonathan. 1975. “Comment on Salmon, W. C. (1975b).” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 152–159. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Good, Irving John. 1988. “Causal Tendency: A Review.” in Causation, Chance, and Credence. Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, vol. 1, edited by Brian Skyrms and William L. Harper, pp. 23–50. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 41. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2863-3.
Greeno, James G. 1971. “Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanations.” in PSA 1970: In Memory of Rudolf Carnap. Proceedings of the 1970 second Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Boston, Fall, 1970, edited by Roger C. Buck and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 3–26. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 8. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Lipton, Peter. 2001. “Is Explanation A Guide to Inference? A Reply to Wesley C. Salmon [Salmon, W. C. (2001b)].” in Explanation. Theoretical Approaches and Applications, edited by Giora Hon and Sam S. Rakover, pp. 93–120. Synthese Library n. 302. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Martin, Richard Milton. 1969. “On Events and Event-Descriptions.” in Fact and Existence. Proceedings of the University of Western Ontario Philosophy Colloguium, 1966, edited by Joseph Margolis, pp. 63–73. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Mellor, David Hugh. 1975. “Comment on Salmon, W. C. (1975b).” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 146–151. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.