Laws of Nature
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Laws of Nature

  1. 786 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Laws of Nature

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
ISBN
9783110869859
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. I. Introduction
  2. Laws of Nature – Laws of Science
  3. II. Philosophical Views
  4. The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities
  5. The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments
  6. The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature
  7. The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief
  8. The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws
  9. III. Scientific Views
  10. Laws and Experiment
  11. Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence
  12. Laws and Chaos
  13. Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws
  14. The Distinctness of Biology
  15. IV. Historical Views
  16. Origins of Scientific “Law”
  17. Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences
  18. Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Subject Index
  21. Names Index