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Philip Kitcher and wesley c. Salmon, (eds.), Scientific Explanation; and Wesley C. Salmon, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation

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James H. Fetzer
James H. Fetzer*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth
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Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon have edited an important anthology of new papers on scientific explanation, a central problem—possibly the central problem—in the theory of science (Kitcher and Salmon 1989). Their collection begins with a comprehensive essay by Salmon that attempts to trace the development of work on this issue from Hempel and Oppenheim (1948) to the present. The University of Minnesota Press has published this article as a separate volume (Salmon 1990), which it is promoting as “a definitive introduction” to this area of inquiry. Apart from its preface and indices, the Salmon volume is identical with the original essay.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 288 - 306
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Copyright © 1991 The Philosophy of Science Association

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I would like to express appreciation to Paul Humphreys for his comments and to an anonymous referee for this journal for perceptive criticism.

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