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Nature's Principles


Nature's Principles


Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Band 4

von: Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler, Max Urchs

181,89 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 22.07.2005
ISBN/EAN: 9781402032585
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 292

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<P>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 <EM>ceteris paribus</EM> 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 <EM>Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science</EM> tackles these problems as part of our consideration of the most fundamental aspects of scientific understanding.</P>
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.
<P>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 <EM>ceteris paribus</EM> 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 <EM>Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science</EM> tackles these problems as part of our consideration of the most fundamental aspects of scientific understanding.</P>
There is no other volume that is so complete and that deals with Law from so many points of view Written by authors from various scientific backgrounds Offers the possibility to build a course, based on the introduction and the papers

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