What? Where? When? Why?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Rational Expectation and Simplicity

   • F. John Clendinnen

   Pages 1-25

3. Why Should Probability be the Guide of Life?

   • D. C. Stove

   Pages 27-48

4. Chance and Degrees of Belief

   • D. H. Mellor

   Pages 49-68

5. Invention and Appraisal

   • Robert McLaughlin

   Pages 69-100

6. Einstein, Light Signals and the ∈-Decision

   • John Saunders, John Norton

   Pages 101-127

7. Simultaneity and Convention in Special Relativity

   • Graham Nerlich

   Pages 129-153

8. Comets, Pollen and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation

   • Wesley C. Salmon

   Pages 155-178

9. Causal Inference and Causal Explanation

   • Clark Glymour

   Pages 179-191

10. Rational Belief and the Common Cause Principle

    • Bas C. van Fraassen

    Pages 193-209

11. Physical Explanation: with Reference to the Theories of Scientific Explanation of Hempel and Salmon

    • J. C. Forge

    Pages 211-229

12. Further Reflections

    • Wesley C. Salmon

    Pages 231-280

13. Autobiographical Note

    • Wesley C. Salmon

    Pages 281-283

14. Back Matter

    Pages 285-319

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Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recog­ nised - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour. Previously, in the Australasian region as elsewhere, those few individuals working within this broad area of inquiry found their base, both intellectually and socially, where they could. In fact, the institutionalisation of History and Philosophy of Science began comparatively early in Australia. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and '60s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia, and in New Zealand.

• bibliography
• expectation
• probability
• space
• space and time
• time

• School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University, Australia

  Robert McLaughlin

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