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Laws and symmetry /
'Laws and Symmetry's' three main objectives are: first, to show the failure of current philosophical accounts of laws of nature; second, to refute arguments for the reality of laws of nature; third, to contribute to an epistemology and a philosophy of science antithetical to such meta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I, Are there laws of nature? What are laws of nature? ; Ideal science: David Lewis's account of laws ; Necessity, worlds, and chance ; Universals: laws grounded in nature
- Part II, Belief as rational but lawless. Inference to the best explanation: salvation by laws? ; Towards a new epistemology ; What if there are no laws? A manifesto
- Part III, Symmetry as guide to theory. Introduction to the semantic approach ; Symmetry arguments in science and metaphysics ; Symmetries guiding modern science
- Part IV, Symmetry and the illusion of logical probability. Indifference: the symmetries of probability ; Symmetries of probability kinematics.