ChapterWhy Ask, ‘Why?’? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific ExplanationWesley C. Salmon1979Why Ask, ‘Why?’? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific ExplanationWesley C. Salmon1979-01-01chapterSpringer eBooks68 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Philosophy and History of ScienceEpistemology, Ethics, and MetaphysicsPhilosophy, Science, and HistoryAbstractNo abstract was published for this record.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 68 citations exist upstream.References1966Aspects of Scientific Explanation.1948Studies in the Logic of Explanation1949Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits1959The Philosophy of Space and Time2009ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD1892The Grammar of Science1973Philosophical Problems of Space and Time1971Statistical Explanation and Statistical RelevanceCited by2008Making classroom assessment more accountable to scientific reasoning: A case for attending to mechanistic thinking2012Mechanistic explanation without the ontic conception1996The Direction of Time1998Reducing Causality to Transmission2012Explanation in Agent-Based Modelling: Functions, Causality or Mechanisms?1984Common Cause Explanation2018Humean laws, explanatory circularity, and the aim of scientific explanation1991A Reason for Explanation: Explanations Provide Stable Reasons