Ceterus Paribus Laws
Author:   John Earman ,  Clark Glymour ,  Sandra Mitchell
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
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9781402010200


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   28 February 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Ceterus Paribus Laws


Overview

Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable. This volume collects some of the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, discussion of the issue.

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Author:   John Earman ,  Clark Glymour ,  Sandra Mitchell
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781402010200


ISBN 10:   1402010206
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   28 February 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editorial; J. Earman, C. Glymour, S. Mitchell. Ceteris Paribus Lost; J. Earman, J. Roberts, S. Smith. There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law; J. Woodward. Ceteris Paribus An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency; S.D. Mitchell. Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction; G. Schurz. Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief; W. Spohn. A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypothesis; C. Glymour. Who's Afraid of Ceteris Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them; M. Lange. In Favor of Laws that are Not Ceteris Paribus After All; N. Cartwright. Cartwright on Explanation and Idealization; M. Elgin, E. Sober.

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