Without Hierarchies: The Scale Freedom of the Universe
Author:   Mariam Thalos (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199917648


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   13 June 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mariam Thalos (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780199917648


ISBN 10:   0199917647
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   13 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Towards a Theory of Science Part I. Scale Freedom Recontextualized 1. Against the Philosophy of a One-Scale Universe 2. Resheathing Part II. Philosophical Foundations of Science and Metaphysics 3. Multiple Conceptions of Fundamentality 4. Why Causation Is Not the Cement of the Universe 5. Moves and Movers: Notes On the Progress of Science 6. Making Sense of Order: The True Cement of the Universe Part III. Deployments 7. The Logic of Leading and Following: Dependence and Independence Among Quantities 8. The Microcosm of Unity (of Science) That Is Physics ------ 9. Conclusion: Toward a More Truth-Illuminating Metaphysics

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This book is sure to attract considerable scholarly attention, but it is also accessible to any reader who has some familiarity with the debates to which Thalos is responding ... Highly recommended. * J.D. Martin, CHOICE * This is a wonderful strange book. Hugely ambitiousThere are things to enjoy and things to be gained from this work, thanks mostly to its refreshing and inventive use of examples. * Analysis *


This book is sure to attract considerable scholarly attention, but it is also accessible to any reader who has some familiarity with the debates to which Thalos is responding ... Highly recommended. J.D. Martin, CHOICE


"""This is a wonderful strange book. Hugely ambitious...There are things to enjoy and things to be gained from this work, thanks mostly to its refreshing and inventive use of examples."" --Analysis"


Author Information

Mariam Thalos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on foundational questions in the sciences, as well as on the relations amongst the sciences. Her work has been supported by the NSF, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, the Tanner Humanities Center, and the University of Sydney Center for Foundations of Science. She is a former Professorial Fellow of the University of London Institute of Philosophy.

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