Alexander Bird

Nature's Metaphysics

Laws and Properties

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature, defending the claim that laws are metaphysically necessary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780199573110
• ISBN-10: 0199573115
• Artikelnr.: 27384686

Autorenporträt

Alexander Bird is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction - laws and properties
2: Dispositions
3: Dispositional essentialism and the laws of nature
4: Categoricalism
5: Dispositional essentialism, modality, and intentionality
6: The regress objection
7: Structural properties
8: The illusion of nomic contingency
9: Are there any laws, and if so what are they?
10: Concluding remarks
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