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Autore: | Mumford Stephen |
Titolo: | Laws in nature / / Stephen Mumford |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina: | 117.22 |
Soggetto topico: | Law (Philosophical concept) |
Power (Philosophy) | |
Philosophy of nature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-224) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Laws in science and philosophy; Humean lawlessness; The lawless world; Regularities and best systems; Hume's argument; Nomological realism; The nomological argument; Natural necessitation relations; Necessitarian essentialism; Realist lawlessness; Are natural laws a natural kind?; The Central Dilemma; Modal properties; Objections and replies; Conclusion: law and metaphor; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws. His book begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature. The discussion addresses questions currently being debated by metaphysicians such as whether the laws of nature are necessary or contingent and whether a property can be identified independently of its causal role. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Laws in nature |
ISBN: | 1-134-38650-8 |
0-203-35420-6 | |
1-134-38651-6 | |
1-280-05301-1 | |
0-203-45842-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783894603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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