Wesley C. Salmon

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Wesley_C._Salmon

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:University_of_California,_Los_Angeles gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkbp:award	gptkb:Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:President_of_the_Philosophy_of_Science_Association
gptkbp:birthDate	1925-08-09
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Detroit,_Michigan,_USA
gptkbp:deathDate	2001-04-22
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:Hans_Reichenbach
gptkbp:field	gptkb:philosophy gptkb:probability_theory gptkb:philosophy_of_science
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Clark_Glymour gptkb:James_Woodward gptkb:Peter_Spirtes
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Carl_Gustav_Hempel gptkb:Hans_Reichenbach
gptkbp:mainInterest	probability causality scientific explanation inductive logic
gptkbp:memberSchool	gptkb:Brown_University gptkb:Indiana_University gptkb:North_Carolina_State_University gptkb:University_of_Pittsburgh
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:Causality_and_Explanation gptkb:Four_Decades_of_Scientific_Explanation gptkb:Scientific_Explanation_and_the_Causal_Structure_of_the_World gptkb:Statistical_Explanation_and_Statistical_Relevance gptkb:The_Foundations_of_Scientific_Inference
gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:philosopher gptkb:professor
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Carl_Gustav_Hempel
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Wesley C. Salmon