Rethinking order : after the laws of nature /

"This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world'. There is order in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cartwright, Nancy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Temas:
Order (Philosophy)
Philosophy of nature.
Cosmology.
Ordre (Philosophie)
Philosophie de la nature.
Cosmologie.
cosmology.
Philosophy of religion.
Religion & science.
Society & social sciences.
Life sciences: general issues.
Philosophy of science.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Naturphilosophie
Ordnung > Biologie
Naturrecht
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; INTRODUCTION / Keith Ward (Heythrop College)
  • SECTION 1. The Historical and Philosophical Setting : 1. The Rise and Fall of Laws of Nature, Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego) ; 2. The Dethronement of Laws in Science, Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)
  • SECTION 2. New Modes of Order in the Natural and Social Sciences : 3. From Order to Chaos and Back Again, Robert C. Bishop (Wheaton College) and Roman Frigg (London School of Economics) ; 4. Multiple Orders in Biology, Eric Martin (Baylor University) and William Bechtel (University of California, San Diego) ; 5. Realism, Pluralism and Naturalism in Biology, John Dupre (University of Exeter) ; 6. The Making and Maintenance of Social Order, Eleonora Montuschi (University of Venice and London School of Economics) and Rom Harre (London School of Economics)
  • SECTION 3. Free Will after the Laws of Nature : 7. Freedom and the Causal Order, T.J. Mawson (St Peter's College, Oxford University) ; 8. From Laws to Powers, Steven Horst (Wesleyan University)
  • SECTION 4. Divine Order : 9. Order in the Relations between Religion and Science? Reflections on the NOMA Principle of Stephen J. Gould, John Hedley Brooke (University of Durham) ; 10. Concepts of God and the Order of Nature, Keith Ward (Heythrop College) ; 11. From Order to God, Russell ReManning (University of Aberdeen) ; CONCLUSION Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)
  • Index.

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