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How the laws of physics lie / Nancy Cartwright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartwright, Nancy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physics--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nancy Cartwright argues for a novel conception of the role of fundamental scientific laws in modern natural science. If we attend closely to the manner in which theoretical laws figure in the practice of science, we see that despite their great explanatory power these laws do not describe reality.
- Contents:
- Causal laws and effective strategies
- The truth doesn't explain much
- Do the laws of physics state the facts?
- The reality of causes in a world of instrumental laws
- When explanation leads to inference
- For phenomenological laws
- Fitting facts to equations
- The simulacrum account of explanation
- How the measurement problem Is an artefact of the mathematics.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-98106-0
- 0-19-151990-1
- 9786611981068
- OCLC:
- 191826627
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