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Nature's principles / edited by Jan Faye ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Baltic Workshop on Logic and the Philosophy of Science (5th : 2001 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Series:
- Logic, epistemology and the unity of science ; v. 4.
- Logic, epistemology, and the unity of science ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of nature.
- Physical laws--Philosophy.
- Physical laws.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2005]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Most of the papers were presented at the 5th Baltic Workshop on Logic and the Philosophy of Science held at Copenhagen May 24-27, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1402032579
- OCLC:
- 60846363
- Publisher Number:
- 9781402032578 (HB)
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