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Metaphysics and science / edited by Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mind Association occasional series.
- Mind Association occasional series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Metaphysics.
- First philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection brings together the latest new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. A new definition of this line of philosophical enquiry is developed, and leading academics offer original essays on four key topics at the heart of the subject - laws, causation natural kinds, and emergence.
- Contents:
- What is the metaphysics of science? / Stephen Mumford, Matthew Tugby
- Measurement, laws, and counterfactuals / John T. Roberts
- Laws, causes, and invariance / Jim Woodward
- How to explain the Lorentz transformations / Marc Lange
- A disposition-based process-theory of causation / Andreas Huttemann
- How to activate a power / Jennifer McKitrick
- How to carve across the joints in nature without abandoning Kripke
- Putnam semantics / Helen Beebee
- Are natural kinds and natural properties distinct? / Emma Tobin
- Realism about structure and kinds / L.A. Paul
- Nonlinearity and metaphysical emergence / Jessica Wilson.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-176001-3
- 0-19-165633-X
- OCLC:
- 857214507
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