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D-Index
40
Citations
11172
World Ranking
5218
National Ranking
2463

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Wesley C. Salmon was affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their scholarly contributions primarily focused on the intersection of philosophy and history of science within the broader domain of arts and humanities.

Their main topics of work included:

  • Philosophy and History of Science

Salmon's research was situated specifically within the subfield of history and philosophy of science.

Among their notable publications, Salmon contributed a book titled Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, published in 2020 by Princeton University Press. This work has been cited extensively in academic literature, reflecting its influence in the field.

Throughout their career, Salmon received recognition such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Four decades of scientific explanation

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Causality and explanation

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • The foundations of scientific inference

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Statistical explanation & statistical relevance

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Causality without counterfactuals

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Causality and Explanation: A Reply to Two Critiques*

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Zeno's Paradoxes,

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Van Fraassen on Explanation

    Philip Kitcher;Wesley Salmon

  • Hans Reichenbach : logical empiricist

    Hans Reichenbach;Wesley C. Salmon

  • Why Ask, ‘Why?’? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Probability and Causality: Essays In Honor Of Wesley C. Salmon

    James H. Fetzer;Wesley C. Salmon

  • Scientific Explanation: Three Basic Conceptions

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Should we attempt to justify induction

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Confirmation and relevance

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Causality: Production and Propagation

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • On Vindicating Induction

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Rational Prediction*

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  • Explanation and Confirmation: A Bayesian Critique of Inference to the Best Explanation

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    Paolo Parrini;Wesley C. Salmon;Merrilee H. Salmon

  • Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science

    Philip Kitcher;Wesley C. Salmon

  • Scientific explanation: causation and unification

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • The Justification of Inductive Rules of Inference

    Wesley C. Salmon

  • Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories

    Wesley C. Salmon;Gereon Wolters

  • Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science Vol. XIII: Scientific Explanation

    Philip Kitcher;Wesley C. Salmon

  • Review of S cientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

    James Woodward;Wesley Salmon

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson University of California, Berkeley
Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka Boston University
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher Columbia University
John Earman
John Earman University of Pittsburgh
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach University of California, Los Angeles
James Woodward
James Woodward University of Pittsburgh
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes Stanford University

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