WESLEY C. SALMON VERSUS G.W.F. HEGEL ON CAUSATION, PRINCIPLE OF COMMON CAUSE AND THEORETICAL EXPLANATION

• Authors: Igor Hanzel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to analyze the main contributions of Wesley C. Salmon to the philosophy of science, that is, his concepts of causation, common cause, and theoretical explanation, and to provide a critique of them. This critique will be based on a comparison of Salmon's concepts with categories developed by Hegel in his 'Science of Logic' and which can be applied to issues treated by Salmon by means of the above given three concepts. It is the author's contention that by means of Hegelian categories it becomes possible to provide a critique of Salmon's philosophy of science and at the same time to enlarge the concept framework of philosophy of science.

Keywords

EN

CATEGORIES; CAUSALITY; COMMON CAUSE; HEGEL; SALMON WESLEY C.; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 189-212
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Igor Hanzel

• Igor Hanzel, Filozoficka fakulta, Univerzita Komenskeho, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09697