What’s Wrong with Salmon’s History: The Third Decade

Philosophy of Science 59 (2):246-262 (1992)
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My purpose here is to elaborate the reasons I maintain that Salmon has not been completely successful in reporting the history of work on explanation. The most important limitation of his account is that it does not emphasize the critical necessity to embrace a suitable conception of probability in the development of the theory of probabilistic explanation

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Counterfactuals.David Lewis - 1973 - Foundations of Language 13 (1):145-151.
Four Decades of Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon & Anne Fagot-Largeault - 1989 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16 (2):355.
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