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| Titolo: | Causation and laws of nature / edited by Howard Sankey. |
| Pubblicazione: | Dordrecht : Kluwer, c1999. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XVI, 358 p. ; 25 cm |
| Serie: | Australasian studies in history and philosophy of science ; 14 |
| Contiene: | Indice: Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction / Howard Sankey. Pt. 1. Laws and causes: 1. Making sense of laws of physics / Alan Chalmers. Pt. 2. Scientific essentialism: 1. Causal powers and laws of nature / Brian Ellis 2. Comment on Ellis / D.M. Armstrong 3. Response to David Armstrong / Brian Ellis 4. Scientific Ellisianism / John Bigelow 5. Bigelow's worries about scientific essentialism / Brian Ellis 6. The naturalness theory of laws / Martin Leckey 7. Nomic necessity and natural states: comment on the Leckey-Bigelow theory of laws / Caroline Lierse. Pt. 3. Laws, quantities and dispositions: 1. Are the laws of nature deductively closed? / Alan Baker 2. Laws of nature as relations between quantities? / John Forge 3. Real law in Peirce's pragmaticism, or, how scholastic realism met the scientific method / Cathy Legg 4. Finkish dispositions / David Lewis 5. Comments on David Lewis: Finkish dispositions / Barry Taylor 6. Laws and cosmology / J.J.C. Smart 7. Comment on Smart / D.M. Armstrong. Pt. 4. Causation and theories of causation: 1. The open door: counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M. Armstrong 2. Causal dependence and laws / F. John Clendinnen 3. Causation is the transfer of information / John D. Collier 4. Good connections: causation and causal processes / Phil Dowe 5. Probabilistic causal structure / Kevin B. Korb 6. Intrinsic versus extrinsic conceptions of causation / Peter Menzies 7. The role of history in microphysics / Huw Price 8. No interaction without prior correlation: comment on Huw Price / Keith Hutchinson. Notes on contributors. Index |
| ISBN: | 0792359143 |
| Altri autori: | Sankey, Howard.
Hutchison, Keith. Chalmers, Alan Francis, 1939- Armstrong, David Malet, 1926- Lierse, Caroline. Leckey, Martin. Baker, Alan R., 1969- Forge, John. Legg, Cathy. Lewis, David K., 1941-2001. Taylor, Barry. Smart, John Jamieson Carswell, 1920- Clendinnen, F. John. Collier, John D. Dowe, Phil. Korb, Kevin B. Menzies, Peter. Price, Huw, 1953- Ellis, Brian. Bigelow, John, 1948- |
| Discipline: | Epistemologia e Filosofia della scienza--Studi. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XXI. |
| Collocazione: | LS 13085 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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