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Nature's Principles
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 4
ISBN/EAN: 9781402032578
Umbreit-Nr.: 1110317
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 292 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 22.04.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabePreface. Contributing Authors. Introduction; Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffer and Max Urchs. Why are (most) laws of nature mathematical?; Mauro Dorato. How Nature Makes Sense; Jan Faye. Cartwright and Nowak 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. Index.