Nature's principles
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...
| Corporate Authors: | Baltic Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Science Copenhagen, Denmark) |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | Baltic Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Science, Faye, Jan., SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2005.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2005] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Logic, epistemology and the unity of science ;
v. 4. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Why are (most) laws of nature mathematical? / Mauro Dorato
- How nature makes sense / Jan Faye
- Cartwright and Nowack on laws and explanation / Igor Hanzel
- The explanatory virtues of probabilistic causal laws / Henrik Hållsten
- The nature of natural laws / Lars-Göran Johansson
- How the ceteris paribus laws of physics lie / Geert Keil
- Necessary laws / Max Kistler
- Laws of nature: a skeptical view / Uwe Meixner
- The laws' properties / Johannes Persson
- Laws of nature versus system laws / Gerhard Schurz
- Psychologism, universality and the use of logic / Werner Stelzner.