Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics and Political Science

The Dappled World

A Study of the Boundaries of Science

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book Nancy Cartwright argues for a patchwork of laws of nature. Combining classic and newly written essays, The Dappled World offers important methodological lessons for both the natural and social sciences, and will interest anyone who wants to understand how modern science works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780521644112
• ISBN-10: 0521644119
• Artikelnr.: 22106530

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Where Do Laws of Nature Come From?: 1. Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws
2. Fables and models
3. Nomological machines and the laws they produce
Part II. Laws and their Limits: 4. Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method
5. Causal diversity, causal stability
6. Ceteris paribus laws and the socio-economic machines
7. Probability machines: chance set-ups and economic models
Part III. The Boundaries of Quantum and Classical Physics and the Territories they Share: 8. How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory
9. How quantum and classical theories relate.