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Series III. Professional Talks, 1970-2001
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Scope and Content Notes: This series contains the outlines of lectures, the manuscripts of lectures, and the typescripts of lectures and talks given to professional audiences at institutions other than Salmon's home university. The lectures were given at professional conferences and at other universities and colleges.
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1972-1973 Lectures 1972-1973
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"Aims of Science": Physics Department, 1981
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"Alternative Models of Scientific Explanation": Grasshopper, 1977
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"Appraisal of Theories": PSA Symposium, 1990
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"Are Explanations Arguments?" Minnesota Center, 1974
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"Avogadro's Number": Analytical Chemistry Forum, 1982
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"Carnap Paper": APA Eastern, 1967
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"Carnap Paper": APA Eastern, 1967
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"Causal Concepts in Various Sciences": UBC, 1980
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"Causal Explanation in Archaeology": Theoretical Archaeology Conference, 1980
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"Causal Propensities": Pittsburgh and Mt. St. Marys, 1990
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"Causal Structure of the World": UCLA, 2001
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"Causal versus Noncausal Explanation": University of Coruna, 2001
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"Causation in Scientific Explanation": USC, 1977
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"Causation in Scientific Explanation": Oberlin Colloquium, 1977
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"Causation: A Realistic Approach": Indiana University, 2000
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"Causality": Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, 1994
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"La Causalita": Center Fiorentino, 1993
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"La Causalita": University of Genova, 1998
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"Causality and Explanation": University of Minnesota Workshop, 1985-1986
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"Causality and Explanation": University of Minnesota Workshop, 1985-1986
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"Causality, Geometry, and Quasars": University of Trieste, 1993
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"Causality and Medicine": DLMPS Congress, 1995
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"Causality and Naturalism": NEH Summer Institute on Naturalism, 1993
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"Causality, Probability, and Indeterminism": Fetzer NEH Institute, 1988
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"Causality: Production and Propagation": University of British Columbia, 1979
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"Causality: Production and Propagation": PSA Symposium, 1980
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"Causality Without Counterfactuals": University of Virginia and University of Pittsburgh, 1994
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"Clocks and Simultaneity": DePauw University and Indiana University, 1972
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"Clocks and Simultaneity in Special Relativity": Ohio State University, 1973
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation": University of New Hampshire, 1975
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams: Some Reflections on Scientific Explanation": University of New Hampshire, 1975
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams": Hope College, 1979
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams": University of Notre Dame, 1981
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams": Lafayette College, 1982
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams": University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1982
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"Comets, Pollen, and Dreams": University of Miami, 1982
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"Commentary: Leaves from an HPS Songbook": HPS 25th Anniversary Celebration, 1985
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"Comment on Bas Van Fraasssen's 'What are the Laws of Nature'": Scientific Realism Workshop, 1985
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"Comment on Byerly's 'Placebo Effect'," 1973-1974
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"Comment on Glymour's 'Explanations, Tests, Unity, and Necessity'": APA Western Division Conference, 1980
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"Comment on Glymour's 'Theory and Evidence'": Conference on Confirmation, 1980
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"Comment on Hertzberg," 1973
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"Comment on J. Plato's 'Probabilistic Causality from A Dynamic Point of View'": Center Conference, 1989
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"Comment on Madden": Harvard, 1957
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"Comment on Martin": APA Western Division Conference, 1968
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"Comment on Maxwell": Russell Conference, 1972
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"Comment on Parrini and Muhlholzer": Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium, 1991
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"Comment on Paul Fitzgerald's 'Time out of Mind'": APA Western Division Conference, 1982
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"Comment on Scheibe's 'A Synthetic Theory of Reduction in Physics'": Grunbaum Colloquium, 1990
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"Comment on Schlesinger and Grunbaum": AAAS, 1963
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"Comment on Sober's 'The Principle of the Common Cause'": Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy, 1987
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"Comment on Vincent Smith's 'What Instances Instantiate'": APA Eastern Division Conference, 1968
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"Commit It Then to the Flames": Florence, 1999
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"Concept of Inductive Evidence": Rochester, undated
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"Confirmation and Relevance": Boston Colloquium, 1972
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"Conflicting Conceptions of Scientific Explanation": APA Eastern Conference, 1985
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"Connections Among Events": University of Trieste, 1996
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"Constructive Empiricism": Method and the Exchange of Knowledge in Science Conference, 1990
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"Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes," undated
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"Creation and Science": ACLU Deposition, 1982
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"Design Argument": Hume Bicentennial Conference, 1976
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"Determinism and Explanation": Rice University, undated
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"Discussion": Conference on Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Space Time, 1974
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"Discussion on Philosophical Lessons from Quantum Theory": University of Notre Dame, 1987
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"Discussion: Scientific Explanation": Experience Reality and Scientific Explanation Workshop, 1996
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"Doubting Thomas and Cross Bearing": University of Alabama ay Birmingham, 1997
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"Dreams of a Famous Physicist": Western Kentucky University and Castiglioncello Conference, 1996
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"Dreams of a Famous Physicist": University of Pittsburgh Physics Club, 1998
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"Empiricism; The Key Question": Arizona State University and University of Pittsburgh, 1983
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"Encounter with David Hume": Richard Gale's Class, 1981
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"Explaining Remarkable Coincidences": University of California Irvine, 1982
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"Explaining Remarkable Coincidences": University of Virginia, 1982
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"Explanation in Archaeology: An Update": Archaeological Theory and Method Symposium, 1988
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"Fingarette Introduction": APA Pacific Division, 1977
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"Flight of Time": Montana State University and University of California Santa Cruz, 1983
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"Formulation of Why Questions": Society of American Archaeologists Annual Meeting, 1983
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"Foundational Studies of Science," undated
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"Four Decades of Scientific Explanation": University of Bologna, 1988
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"Four Decades of Scientific Explanation": University of Bologna, 1988
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"Galileo Galilei," 1990
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"Hempel, Carnap, and Reichenbach on Scientific Realism": Carnap-Reichenbach Centennial, 1991
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"Hempel on the Rationality of Science": APA Eastern Division Conference, 1983
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"History of Statistical Explanation": Minnesota Center Seminar, undated
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"History of Statistical Explanation": Minnesota Center Seminar, undated
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"Humanities Education in a Technological Age": Academic Leadership Conference, 1985
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"Inference to the Best Explanation": Leipzig Workshop, 1996
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"Inference to the Best Explanation": Haifa Conference and Bologna Seminar, 1998
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"Importance of Scientific Understanding": Amherst College, 1988
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"Informal Analytic Approaches": PSA Research Problems Conference, 1977
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"Induction: A Defense," undated
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"Induction/Probability and Causation/Explanation": University of Pittsburgh, 2000
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"Inductive Explanation," undated
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"Inductive Inference in Science": Pittsburgh Lectures, 1964
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"Inductive Inference and Statistical Explanation": DLMPS International Conference, 1975
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"Intellectual Autobiography," undated
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"Intuitions-Good and Not-so-Good": National Science Foundation Conference on Probability and Causation, 1985
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"Italian Round Table," 1999
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"Jose Alberto Coffa": Coffa Memorial, 1985
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Keynote Lecture: Air Force Science Seminar, 1968
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Lectures: Australia, 1978
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"Lecture on Quasar System and Statistical Hypothesis": Conference on Applications of Inductive Logic, 1978
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"Looking at Causality in a Different Way": University of British Columbia, University of Colorado, and University of Arizona, 1979-1980
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"Meaning of Probability," undated
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"Modern Conceptions of Space," undated
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"New Look at Causality": Konstanz, Munich, and Heidelberg, undated
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"New Look at Causality": University of Notre Dame, 1981
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"New Model of Statistical Explanation in Science," undated
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"New Models of Scientific Explanation": Society for American Archaeology, 1977
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"Objective Probabilities: Propensities vs. Frequencies": University of Michigan and Indiana University, 1979
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"Ornithology in a Cubical World: Reichenbach on Scientific Realism": Boston Colloquium and UCLA, 1991
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"Perspective": Honors Convocation, 1973
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"Philosophy of Bertrand Russell": Pittsburgh British Festival, 1981
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"Philosophy of Geometry": Math and Everything Else Series, 1970-1971
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"Philosophy of Physics: Problems and Approaches," undated
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"Plato and Mathematics," undated
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"Plausibility Arguments in Science": University of Montana, 1968
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"Plausibility Arguments in Science": Museum of Northern Arizona, 1976
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"Plausibility vs. Inexorable Laws": Scientific Controversies International Conference, 1993
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"Priori Knowledge": Pittsburgh, 1965
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"Probabilistic Causality": Indiana University, 1980
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"Probabilistic Explanation": PSA Conference, 1982
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"Probabilistic vs. Indeterministic Causality": University of Iowa, 1986
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"Probability and Induction": Pittsburgh Lectures, 1963
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"Probability of Scientific Theory," undated
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"Problem of Induction": London Symposium, 1965
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"Problem of Statistical Explanation": AAAS Meeting, 1967
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"Puzzles About Confirmation": Kentucky University, 1972
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"Quasars, Causality, and Rhetoric": Centro Fiorentino, 1993
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"Ragionamento Informale e Regole Formali": Rome, 1991
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"Ragionamento Informale e Regole Formali": Pisa, 1991
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"Ragionamento Informale e Regole Formali": University of Catania, 1992
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"Rationality and Objectivity in Science": Philosophy of Science Center and Western Canada Philosophy Association 1986-1987
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"Rationality and Objectivity in Science," 1989
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"Rationality in Science": Carleton College and University of Minnesota, 1985
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"Rational Prediction": Popper Symposium, 1980
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"Realism and Scientific Explanation": USC, March 3rd, 1980
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"Realistic Account of Causation": Genoa Conference, November 1999
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"Relative Utility of Deductive and Inductive Logic": Conference on Logic and Liberal Learning, 1979
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"Russell on Scientific Method": Russell Conference, March 1972
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"Russell's Philosophical Accomplishment": Russell Memorial, 1970
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"Science: Rational or Irrational": University of California Santa Cruz, 1988
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"Scientific Evidence and the Existence of God" : Pittsburgh Lectures, 1969
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"Scientific Explanation": Southern Methodist University, 1975 1975
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"Scientific Explanation: Causation and Implication": Mexico City Conference, 1990
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"Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification": University of Nebraska, 1989
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"Scientific Explanation": Consensus or Progress?": AAAS Symposium, 1986
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"Scientific Knowledge vs Scientific Understanding": Sigma Xi, 1980
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"Scientific Realism: Logic, Physics, Metaphysics": International Conference Logic and Metaphysics, 2001
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"Scientific Understanding and Human Values": International Conference on Ethical Research and the Sciences, 1993
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"Scientific Understanding in the Twentieth Century": Oregon State University and Einstein Forum, 1994-1995
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"Scientific Understanding in the Twentieth Century," 1997
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"Scientific Understanding in an Indeterministic World": Mt. Saint Mary's and Centro Fiorentino, 1990
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"Scientific Understanding in the Twentieth Century": Vienna Institute, May 1999
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"Significance of One Way Speed of Light": Melbourne, 1978
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"Simultaneity Now," undated
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"Spirit of Logical Empiricism": Center, 1998
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"Statistical and Causal Relevance in Scientific": Pittsburgh Workshop, 1980
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"Statistical Relevance Explanation": Rockefeller Seminar, 1974
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"Structure of Causal Explanation": University of Coruna, 2001
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"Theoretical Explanation": Bristol Philosophy Conference, 1973
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"Theoretical Explanation": APA Pacific Division Symposium, 1974
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"Theoretical Explanation": University of Notre Dame, 1981
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"Third Dogma of Empiricism": University of Pittsburgh, 1975
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"Third Dogma of Empiricism":Montana University, 1976
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"Three Conceptions of Explanation": Simon Fraser University, 1979
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"Universe," 1995
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Untitled Lecture: Athens, 1992
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Untitled Lecture: Clemson College, 1997
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Untitled Lecture: Hamilton College, 1986
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Untitled Lecture: International Conference of Philosophy of Science, 1988
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Untitled Lecture: International Wittgenstein Symposium, undated
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Untitled Lecture: Minnesota Conference on Induction, 1968
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Untitled Lecture: NEH Seminar, 1991
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Untitled Lecture: Princeton University, 1987
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Untitled Lecture: Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, 1978
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Untitled Lecture: Temple University, 1975
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Untitled Lecture: UCLA Colloquium, 1974
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Untitled Lecture: USC, 1980
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Untitled Lecture: Virginia Tech, 1988
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"Values in Science": Ideal or Illusion Conference, 2001
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"What is Scientific Explanation?": University of Wyoming, 1974
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"What Makes Scientific Understanding Special": Hampen-Syndey College, Cal-State, and University of Washington, 1991-1993
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"What's next Dammit, David Hume?": Oberlin Conference, 1966
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"Why Ask Why": APA Presidential Address, 1978
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"Why Do Physicists Believe What They Believe?": University of Arizona, 1974
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"Wisdom and Science": Northwestern University, 1955
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