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Laws of Nature 1st Edition

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Laws of nature First Edition. Edition Ott Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Ott, Walter R.; Patton, Lydia

ISBN(s): 9780191063718, 9780191809057, 0191063711, 0191809055

Edition: First edition.

File Details: PDF, 1.94 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-10539084 Categories: Politics & Philosophy, Society Tags: Laws of Nature, Lydia Patton, Walter R. Ott

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Laws of Nature 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780191063718,9780191809057,0191063711,0191809055

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ISBN 10:0191063711
ISBN 13: 9780191063718
Author:Lydia Patton; Walter R. Ott

What is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? To what extent do the laws of nature permit contingency? Are there exceptions to the laws of nature? Is it possible to give a reductive analysis of lawhood, or is it a primitive? Twelve new essays by an international team of leading philosophers take up these and other central questions on the laws of nature, whilst also examining some of the most important intuitions and assumptions that have guided the debate over laws of nature since the concepts invention in the seventeenth century. Laws of Nature spans the history of philosophy and of science, contemporary metaphysics, and contemporary philosophy of science.

Table contents:

1:Intuitions and Assumptions in the Debate over Laws of Nature

2:Early Modern Roots of the Philosophical Concept of a Law of Nature

3:Laws of Nature and the Divine Order of Things: Descartes and Newton on Truth in Natural Philosophy

4:Leges sive natura: Bacon, Spinoza, and a Forgotten Concept of Law

5:Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature

6:Laws and Ideal Unity

7:Becoming Humean

8:A Perspectivalist Better Best System Account of Lawhood

9:Laws: An Invariance Based Account

10:How the Explanations of Natural Laws Make Some Reducible Physical Properties Natural and Explanatorily Powerful

11:Laws and their Exceptions