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work_oaop4wa3sbepxe4ylunpdwyt6u	Wesley C. Salmon	Causality and Explanation: A Reply to Two Critiques	1997	17	.pdf	application/pdf	7563	471	58	This paper also responds to several fundamental constructive criticisms contained in Christopher Hitchcock's discussion of both the marktransmission and the conserved quantity theories. In "Salmon on Explanatory Relevance", Christopher Read Hitchcock raises problems concerning the nature and role of causality in scientific explanation that I assumed that Dowe intended a similar stipulation about conserved quantities in causal processes. In theory, causal processes do possess a fixed amount of energy, say, in the absence of interactions, CQ [conserved quantity] theory does not require that a causal process possess a constant amount of the relevant quantity over the Thus, the spot is not a causal process according to the conserved quantity theory. A causal process is the world-line of an object that transmits a nonzero amount of a conserved quantity at each moment of its history (1992a), "Wesley Salmon's Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory", Philosophy of Science 59: 195-216.	./cache/work_oaop4wa3sbepxe4ylunpdwyt6u.pdf	./txt/work_oaop4wa3sbepxe4ylunpdwyt6u.txt