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Explanation and causation [Book Review]
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (2):243-257 (1987)
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Wesley Salmon’s Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory.Phil Dowe - 1992 - Philosophy of Science 59 (2):195-216.
Explanation in Biology: Let's Razor Ockham's Razor.Elliott Sober - 1990 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 27:73-93.
An empiricist defence of the causal account of explanation.Phil Dowe - 1992 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 6 (2):123 – 128.
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Causal powers: a theory of natural necessity.Rom Harré & Edward H. Madden - 1975 - Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield. Edited by Edward H. Madden.
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