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Laws of Nature : Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
1995.
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| Colección: | Philosophie und Wissenschaft.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Introduction; Laws of Nature
- Laws of Science; II. Philosophical Views; The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities; The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments; The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature; The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief; The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws; III. Scientific Views; Laws and Experiment; Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence; Laws and Chaos; Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws; The Distinctness of Biology; IV. Historical Views
- Origins of Scientific "Law"Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences; Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments; List of Contributors; Subject Index; Names Index