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Metaphysics and science /
This collection brings together the latest new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. A new definition of this line of philosophical enquiry is developed, and leading academics offer original essays on four key topics at the heart of the subject - laws, causati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Mind Association occasional series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1. What is the metaphysics of science?""; ""Part I. Laws""; ""2. Measurement, laws, and counterfactuals""; ""3. Laws, causes, and invariance""; ""4. How to explain the Lorentz transformations""; ""Part II. Dispositions and Causes""; ""5. A disposition-based process-theory of causation""; ""6. How to activate a power""; ""Part III. Natural Kinds""; ""7. How to carve across the joints in nature without abandoning Kripke�Putnam semantics""; ""8. Are natural kinds and natural properties distinct?""
- 9. Realism about structure and kindsPart IV. Emergence
- 10. Nonlinearity and metaphysical emergence
- References
- Index
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