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The dappled world : a study of the boundaries of science / Nancy Cartwright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartwright, Nancy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Methodology.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Physics--Methodology.
- Physics.
- Science--methods.
- Physics--methods.
- Medical Subjects:
- Science--methods.
- Physics--methods.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 247 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Where do laws of nature come from? 1. Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws. 2. Fables and models. 3. Nomological machines and the laws they produce
- pt. II. Laws and their limits
- The laws we test in physics. 4. Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method
- Causal laws. 5. Causal diversity; causal stability
- Current economic theory. 6. Ceteris paribus laws and socio-economic machines
- Probabilistic laws. 7. Probability machines: chance set-ups and economic models
- pt. III. The boundaries of quantum and classical physics and the territories they share. 8. How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory. 9. How quantum and classical theories relate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781139167093 (electronic bk.)
- 113916709X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90102230943
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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