Salmon, Wesley

Salmon, Wesley. 1984. Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press. 

Salmon, Wesley. 1989. Four decades of explanation. In Scientific explanation Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, 13, ed. Philip Kitcher tmd Wesley Salmon, 3-219. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press. 

Dowe, P. 1992. "Wesley Salmon s Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory. Philosophy of Science, 59 195-216. 

There is another way that oomph factors have been invoked in accounts of causation, a way that is entirely independent of the idea of whether there is a sui generis kind of nomic necessity. Such factors are invoked in transference theories of causation, according to which causation involves the transfer of some preserved quantity. Kim (1998b, 2007) makes it clear that he favors a kind of transference theory of causation. Wesley Salmon (1984, 1994), whom Kim cites with approval, held a transference theory according to which causation involves the transference of some kind of conserved quantity or other, energy (or mass energy), or momentum. Kim, however, he does not commit himself to any specific transference theory." ... 

Kitcher, Philip. 1989. Explanatory unification and the causal stiucture of the world. In Scientific explanation, ed. Wesley Salmon and Philip Kitcher, 410-505. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press. 

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