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1 online resource (xv, 395 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-385) and index. |
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Part I, Are there laws of nature? What are laws of nature? ; Ideal science: David Lewis's account of laws ; Necessity, worlds, and chance ; Universals: laws grounded in nature -- Part II, Belief as rational but lawless. Inference to the best explanation: salvation by laws? ; Towards a new epistemology ; What if there are no laws? A manifesto -- Part III, Symmetry as guide to theory. Introduction to the semantic approach ; Symmetry arguments in science and metaphysics ; Symmetries guiding modern science -- Part IV, Symmetry and the illusion of logical probability. Indifference: the symmetries of probability ; Symmetries of probability kinematics. |
| Summary |
'Laws and Symmetry's' three main objectives are: first, to show the failure of current philosophical accounts of laws of nature; second, to refute arguments for the reality of laws of nature; third, to contribute to an epistemology and a philosophy of science antithetical to such metaphysical notions. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy of nature.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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Necessity (Philosophy)
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Necessity (Philosophy) |
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Symmetry.
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Symmetry. |
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Philosophy and science.
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Philosophy and science. |
| Indexed Term |
Science Laws Philosophical aspects |
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Electronic books.
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Oxford University Press.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941- Laws and symmetry. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 0198248113 (DLC) 89030366 (OCoLC)19222164 |
| ISBN |
0198248601 |
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9780198248606 |
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9780191519994 (electronic book) |
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0191519995 (electronic book) |
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0198248113 |
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9780198248118 |
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