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What? where? when? why? : essays on induction, space and time, explanation : inspired by the work of Wesley C. Salmon and celebrating his first visit to Australia, September-December 1978
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- Creator
- edited by Robert McLaughlin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, [1982]
- ©1982
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- xvii, 319 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789027713377, 9027713375
- OCLC
- ocm08115003
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Rational expectation and simplicity / F. John Clendinnen -- Why should probability be the guide of life? / D.C. Stove -- Chance and degrees of belief / D.H. Mellor -- Invention and appraisal / Robert McLaughlin -- Einstein, light signals, and the E-decision / John Saunders and John Norton -- Simultaneity and convention in special relativity / Graham Nerlich -- Comets, pollen, and dreams / Wesley C. Salmon -- Causal inference and causal explanation / Clark Glymour -- Rational belief and the common cause principle / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- Physical explanation / John Forge -- Further reflections / Wesley C. Salmon