Nature's Principles
Author:   Jan Faye ,  Paul Needham ,  Uwe Scheffler ,  Max Urchs
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Volume:   4
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9789048168262


Pages:   292
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Jan Faye ,  Paul Needham ,  Uwe Scheffler ,  Max Urchs
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.489kg
ISBN:  

9789048168262


ISBN 10:   9048168260
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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Aus den Rezensionen: ... In einer glanzenden ... Einleitung wird der historische, logische und philosophische Hintergrund der einzelnen Essays dargestellt. ... Wichtige Fragen werden ... von Ausnahmen und Randbedingungen aufgeworfen ... eine glanzende Bestatigung ... (Rudiger Vaas, in: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau,2006, Vol. 59, Issue 10, S. 571 f.)


Aus den Rezensionen: ! In einer glanzenden ! Einleitung wird der historische, logische und philosophische Hintergrund der einzelnen Essays dargestellt. ! Wichtige Fragen werden ! von Ausnahmen und Randbedingungen aufgeworfen ! eine glanzende Bestatigung ! (Rudiger Vaas, in: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau,2006, Vol. 59, Issue 10, S. 571 f.)


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