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  1. Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking.Merrilee H. Salmon - 2012 - Australia: Cengage Learning.
    Designed for students with no prior training in logic, INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING offers an accessible treatment of logic that enhances understanding of reasoning in everyday life. The text begins with an introduction to arguments. After some linguistic preliminaries, the text presents a detailed analysis of inductive reasoning and associated fallacies. This order of presentation helps to motivate the use of formal methods in the subsequent sections on deductive logic and fallacies. Lively and straightforward prose assists students in (...)
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    Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.Paolo Parrini, Merrilee H. Salmon & Wesley C. Salmon (eds.) - 2003 - University of Pittsburgh Press.
    This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science.
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    Philosophy and archaeology.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1982 - New York, N.Y.: Academic Press.
    Studies in Archaeology: Philosophy and Archaeology presents the circumstances under which archeological hypotheses can be considered confirmed or disconfirmed. This book discusses the role of analogy in archeological reasoning, particularly in ascribing functions to archeological items. Organized into seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the relationship between archeology and philosophy. This text then examines the importance of laws for archeology and discusses some essential features of law statements. Other chapters consider the strong claims for the hypothetico-deductive method (...)
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    On the Possibility of Lawful Explanation in Archaeology.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1990 - Critica 22 (66):87-114.
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    Analyzing Conversational Reasoning.Merrilee H. Salmon & Colleen M. Zeitz - 1995 - Informal Logic 17 (1).
    This work discusses an empirical study of reasoning as it occurs in conversations. Reasoning in this context has features not usually accounted for in standard methods for describing argumentation (e.g., Toulmin, (1964), Toulmin, Rieke, and Janik (1984)). For example, insufficient attention has been paid to challenges which can be used to shift the ground of an argument and to the development of multiple conversational grounds. Moreover, even though the value of cooperative efforts in building arguments is widely recognized, more needs (...)
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    Consistency proofs for applied mathematics.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1977 - Synthese 34 (3):301 - 312.
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    of the Social Sciences.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1992 - In Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour & James G. Lennox (eds.), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 404.
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    Standards of Evidence in Anthropological Reasoning.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1996 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1):129-145.
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    (1 other version)Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: A Text by the Members of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1992 - Hackett Publishing Company.
    A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction to the philosophy of science focused on cultivating an understanding of both the workings of science and its historical and social context. Selections range from discussions of topics in general methodology to a sampling of foundational problems in various physical, biological, behavioral, and social sciences. Each chapter contains a list of suggested readings (...)
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    Art or Science? A Controversy about the Evidence for Cannibalism.Merrilee H. Salmon - 2000 - In Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 199.
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  11. Causal explanations of behavior.Merrilee H. Salmon - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (4):720-738.
    Most discussions of causal explanations of behavior focus on the problem of whether it makes sense to regard reasons as causes of human behavior, whether there can be laws connecting reasons with behavior, and the like. This essay discusses explanations of human behavior that do not appeal to reasons. Such explanations can be found in several areas of the social sciences. Moreover, these explanations are both causal and non-reductionist. Historical linguists, for example, offer causal explanations of changes in how words (...)
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    On Russell's "Brief But Notorious Flirtation with Phenomenalism".Merrilee H. Salmon - 2014 - Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 16:13.
  13. The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, with His Responses ; with a Bibliography of Works of Arthur W. Burks.Arthur W. Burks & Merrilee H. Salmon - 1990
     
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    Ascribing Functions to Archaeological Objects.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1981 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (1):19-26.
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    Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation.Wesley C. Salmon & Merrilee H. Salmon - 1997 - In Wesley C. Salmon (ed.), Causality and Explanation. New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
    Coauthored with Merrilee Salmon, addresses archaeologists and other anthropologists interested in the nature of scientific explanation. A group called the new archaeologists, concerned to assure the scientific status of archaeology, had become convinced that a sine qua non of science is the construction of explanations conforming to Hempel's D‐N model. The authors aim was to show that a much wider class of covering law models of explanation is available, and that others in this set are more suitable than the D‐N (...)
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    Ethics in science: Special problems in anthropology and archaeology.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1999 - Science and Engineering Ethics 5 (3):307-310.
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    Editorial Notice.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1991 - Philosophy of Science 58 (1):i-i.
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    Machiavelli’s The Prince.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1995 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15 (1):14-22.
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    (1 other version)Processos causals, realisme i mecànica quàntica.Merrilee H. Salmon - 2005 - Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37:169-179.
    https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v37-suarez.
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    Philosophy of Science for Anthropologists.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1977 - Teaching Philosophy 2 (2):135-138.
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    Pop sociobiology and meta-ethics.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):83-83.
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    Reality and Rationality.Merrilee H. Salmon & Phil Dowe (eds.) - 2005 - New York: Oup Usa.
    This is a short, cohesive collection of published articles by one of the top philosophers of science in the 20th century, Wesley C. Salmon.
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    Relativist ethics, scientific objectivity, and concern for human rights.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1999 - Science and Engineering Ethics 5 (3):311-318.
    This paper comments on the conflict between ethical relativism and anthropologists’ concerns with rights, and tries to show that neither scientific objectivity nor respect for cultural diversity require denying an extracultural stance for ethical judgments.
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    Reasoning in the social sciences.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1993 - Synthese 97 (2):249 - 267.
    In 1981, A. C. Crombie identified six “styles of scientific thinking in the European tradition” that constitute our ways of reasoning in the natural sciences. In this paper, I try to show that these styles constitute reasoning in the social sciences as well, and that, as a result, the differences between reasoning about the physical world and about human beings are not so different as some interpretevists have supposed.
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    Scientific Anthropology--Scientific Anthropological Archaeology: Comments on Dunnell and Jarvie.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1984 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:764 - 770.
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    The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, with His Responses.Merrilee H. Salmon (ed.) - 1990 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen tieth century: semantics and ontology, induction, the nature of prob ability, the foundations of science, scientific objectivity, the theory of naming, the logic of conditionals, simulation modeling, the relatiOn be tween minds and machines, (...)
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    Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation.Merrilee H. Salmon - 1979 - Philosophy of Science 46 (3):494-495.
  28. Empiricism: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. This volume presents seventeen essays (not eleven, as the publisher inexplicably claims) by a diverse group of philosophers that arose out of a conference in. [REVIEW]Paolo Parrlmi, Wesley C. Salmon & Merrilee H. Salmon - 2004 - In Friedrich Stadler (ed.), Induction and Deduction in the Sciences. Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer. pp. 331.
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