Nature's Principles
Contributor(s): Faye, Jan [editor.] | Needham, Paul [editor.] | Scheffler, Uwe [editor.] | Urchs, Max [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science: 4Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.Description: XII, 292 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781402032585.Subject(s): Philosophy | Philosophy and science | Philosophy of nature | Philosophy | Philosophy of Science | Philosophy of NatureDDC classification: 501 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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 the historical, logical and philosophical background of the problems dealt with in the essays. Among the topics treated in the essays is the relationship between laws of nature and causal laws as well as the role of ceteris paribus clauses in scientific explanations. Traditionally, the problem of the unity of science was intimately connected to the problem of understanding the unity of nature. This fourth volume of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science tackles these problems as part of our consideration of the most fundamental aspects of scientific understanding.
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