Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Scientific Explanation" by James Woodward and Lauren Ross
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- Achinstein, Peter, 1983, The Nature of Explanation, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Barnes, Eric, 1992, “Explanatory Unification and the Problem of Asymmetry”, Philosophy of Science, 59(4): 558–571. doi:10.1086/289695 (Scholar)
- Braithwaite, R. B., 1953, Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Bromberger, Sylvain, 1966, “Why-Questions”, in Mind and Cosmos: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy, Robert G. Colodny, (ed), Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 86–111. (Scholar)
- Cartwright, Nancy, 1979, “Causal Laws and Effective Strategies”, Noûs, 13(4): 419–437. doi:10.2307/2215337 (Scholar)
- –––, 1983, How the Laws of Physics Lie, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- De Regt, Henk W. and Dennis Dieks, 2005, “A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding”, Synthese, 144(1): 137–170. doi:10.1007/s11229-005-5000-4 (Scholar)
- Dowe, Phil, 2000, Physical Causation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511570650 (Scholar)
- Earman, John, 1986, A Primer on Determinism, Dordrecht: Reidel. (Scholar)
- Friedman, Michael, 1974, “Explanation and Scientific Understanding”, The Journal of Philosophy, 71(1): 5–19. doi:10.2307/2024924 (Scholar)
- Gardiner, Patrick L., 1959, The Nature of Historical Explanation, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Goodman, Nelson, 1955, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Greeno, James G., 1970, “Evaluation of Statistical Hypotheses Using Information Transmitted”, Philosophy of Science, 37(2): 279–294. Reprinted in Salmon, 1971b: 89–104. doi:10.1086/288301 (Scholar)
- Hall, Ned, 2004, “Two Concepts of Causation”, in Causation and Counterfactuals, John Collins, Ned Hall, and L. A. Paul (eds), Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 225–276. (Scholar)
- Hausman, Daniel M., 1998, Causal Asymmetries, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511663710 (Scholar)
- Hempel, Carl G., 1965a, Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, New York: Free Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1965b, “Aspects of Scientific Explanation”, in Hempel 1965a: 331–496. (Scholar)
- –––, 1942 [1965], “The Function of General
Laws in History”, Journal of Philosophy, 39(2):
35–48; reprinted with slight modifications in Hempel 1965a:
231–244. doi:10.2307/2017635 (Scholar)
- Hempel, Carl G. and Paul Oppenheim, 1948 [1965], “Studies in
the Logic of Explanation”, Philosophy of Science,
15(2): 135–175. Reprinted in Hempel 1965a: 245–290.
doi:10.1086/286983 (Scholar)
- Janzing, Dominik, Joris Mooij, Kun Zhang, Jan Lemeire, Jakob Zscheischler, Povilas Daniušis, Bastian Steudel, and Bernhard Schölkopf, 2012, “Information-Geometric Approach to Inferring Causal Directions”, Artificial Intelligence, 182–183: 1–31. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2012.01.002 (Scholar)
- Jeffrey, Richard C., 1969, “Statistical Explanation vs. Statistical Inference”, in Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel, Nicholas Rescher (ed.), Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 104–113. Reprinted in Salmon 1971b: 19–28. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1466-2_6 (Scholar)
- Hitchcock, Christopher Read, 1995, “Discussion: Salmon on Explanatory Relevance”, Philosophy of Science, 62(2): 304–320. doi:10.1086/289858 (Scholar)
- Kitcher, Philip, 1976, “Explanation, Conjunction, and Unification”, The Journal of Philosophy, 73(8): 207–212. doi:10.2307/2025559 (Scholar)
- –––, 1989, “Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World”, in Kitcher and Salmon 1989: 410–505. (Scholar)
- Kitcher, Philip and Wesley Salmon, 1987, “Van Fraassen on Explanation”, The Journal of Philosophy, 84(6): 315–330. doi:10.2307/2026782 (Scholar)
- ––– (eds), 1989, Scientific Explanation (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 13), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
- Kyburg, Henry E., 1965, “Discussion: Salmon’s Paper”, Philosophy of Science, 32(2): 147–151. doi:10.1086/288034 (Scholar)
- Lange, M., 2017, Because Without Cause: Non-causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Lewis, David K., 1973, Counterfactuals, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986, Philosophical Papers (Volume II),
Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0195036468.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Causation as Influence”, The Journal of Philosophy, 97(4): 182–197. doi:10.2307/2678389 (Scholar)
- Lien, Yunnwen and Patricia W. Cheng, 2000, “Distinguishing
Genuine from Spurious Causes: A Coherence Hypothesis”,
Cognitive Psychology, 40(2): 87–137.
doi:10.1006/cogp.1999.0724 (Scholar)
- Lombrozo, Tania, 2010, “Causal–Explanatory Pluralism: How Intentions, Functions, and Mechanisms Influence Causal Ascriptions”, Cognitive Psychology, 61(4): 303–332. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.05.002 (Scholar)
- Mitchell, Sandra D., 1997, “Pragmatic Laws”, Philosophy of Science, 64(Supplement PSA 1996): S468–S479. doi:10.1086/392623 (Scholar)
- Nagel, Ernest, 1961, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World. (Scholar)
- Pearl, Judea, 2000, Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, Cambridge: Cambridge University. (Scholar)
- Pitt, Joseph C. (ed.), 1988, Theories of Explanation, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Popper, Karl, 1959, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson. (Scholar)
- Reutlinger, Alexander and Juha Saatsi (eds.), 2018, Explanation Beyond Causation; Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198777946.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Ruben, David-Hillel (ed.), 1993, Explanation (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Salmon, Wesley C., 1971a, “Statistical Explanation”, in Salmon 1971b: 29–87. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1971b, Statistical Explanation and Statistical Relevance, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1984, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1989, “Four Decades of Scientific Explanation”, in Kitcher and Salmon 1989: 3–219. Reprinted as a separate monograph, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Page numbers are from the monograph. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, “Causality without Counterfactuals”, Philosophy of Science, 61(2): 297–312. doi:10.1086/289801 (Scholar)
- –––, 1997, “Causality and Explanation: A Reply to Two Critiques”, Philosophy of Science, 64(3): 461–477. doi:10.1086/392561 (Scholar)
- Schaffer, Jonathan, 2000, “Causation by Disconnection”, Philosophy of Science, 67(2): 285–300. doi:10.1086/392776 (Scholar)
- Scriven, Michael, 1959, “Truisms as the Grounds of
Historical Explanations”, in Theories of History: Readings
from Classical and Contemporary Sources, Patrick Gardiner (ed.),
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 443–475. (Scholar)
- –––, 1962, “Explanations, Predictions, and
Laws”, in Scientific Explanation, Space, and Time
(Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Vol. 3), Herbert
Feigl and Grover Maxwell (eds), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 170–230. (Scholar)
- Spirtes, Peter, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines, 1993 [2000],
Causation, Prediction and Search, New York: Springer-Verlag.
Second Edition, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. (Scholar)
- van Fraassen, Bas. C., 1980, The Scientific Image,
Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0198244274.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 1989, Laws and Symmetry, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0198248601.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Whewell, William, 1840, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History, two volumes, London: John W. Parker. (Scholar)
- Woodward, James, 1989, “The Causal/Mechanical Model of Explanation”, in Kitcher and Salmon 1989: 357–383. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 51(2): 197–254. doi:10.1093/bjps/51.2.197 (Scholar)
- –––, 2002, “What Is a Mechanism?: A Counterfactual Account”, Philosophy of Science, 69: S366–S377. (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, Making Things Happen: A Theory of
Causal Explanation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/0195155270.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, “Sensitive and Insensitive
Causation”, The Philosophical Review, 115(1): 1–50.
doi:10.1215/00318108-2005-001 (Scholar)