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Salmon

Wesley C. Salmon

pp. 209-239

in: Maria C. Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini (eds), Experience, reality, and scientific explanation, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

There can be no doubt that the migration of German and Austrian philosophers to North America as a result of Adolf Hitler's rise to power had a profound effect on twentieth-century scientific philosophy in general, and on philosophy of science in particular. Robert Butts's essay contains a great deal of enlightening information on this topic, but it is, so to speak, a view from east of the Mississippi River.¹ Since my entry into philosophy of science occurred in California, I should like to add a view of the subject from the West Coast.