Nancy Cartwright

The Dappled World

A Study of the Boundaries of Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important and innovative collection of essays argues for a patchwork of laws of nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780521643368
• ISBN-10: 0521643368
• Artikelnr.: 23843953

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.