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Nature's Principles
One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants. It begins with an extensive introduction describing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2005. |
| Colección: | Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why Are (Most) Laws of Nature Mathematical?
- How Nature Makes Sense
- Nancy Cartwright and Leszek Nowak on Scientific Laws and Scientific Explanation
- The Explanatory Virtues of Probabilistic Causal Laws
- The Nature of Natural Laws
- How the Ceteris Paribus Laws of Physics Lie
- Necessary Laws
- Laws of Nature - A Skeptical View
- The Laws' Properties
- Laws of Nature Versus System Laws
- Psychologism, Universality and the Use of Logic.