Causality and Conserved Quantities: A Reply to Salmon
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 62 (2) , 321-333
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289859
Abstract
In a recent paper (1994) Wesley Salmon has replied to criticisms (e.g., Dowe 1992c, Kitcher 1989) of his (1984) theory of causality, and has offered a revised theory which, he argues, is not open t...Keywords
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