1. Salmon, Wesley, 1984, Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2. Cf., van Fraassen, Bas, 1982, “Rational Belief and the Common Cause Principle” in McLaughlin, Robert, What? Where? When? Why? Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
3. Cf., Simon, Herbert, 1954, “Spurious Correlation: A Causal Interpretation,” JASA
49, 467–479. Reprinted in Simon, H., 1977, Models of Discovery. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
4. For the longer story, see Cartwright, N. 1988, Causes and Capacities: Empiricism Reclaimed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.