Andreas Huttemann

A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, i.e. one that refrains from postulating any structure that is explanatorily irrelevant. HÃ ttemann analyses central aspects of scientific practice, such as prediction, explanation and manipulation, to consider whether and (if so) what presuppositions best account for these practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 149mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781009010436
• ISBN-10: 1009010433
• Artikelnr.: 68666092

Autorenporträt

Andreas Hüttemann is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Cologne. He is the author of What's Wrong with Microphysicalism? (2004) and Ursachen (2013), and has published many book chapters and journal articles on metaphysics, philosophy of science and early modern philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Laws of nature and their modal surface structure
2. The problem of ceteris paribus clauses
3. Causation - conceptual groundwork
4. Causation - application and augmentation
5. Reductive practices
6. Reduction and physical foundationalism
7. Reduction and ontological monism
8. Concluding remarks: methods and epistemic sources in metaphysics.