Laws of nature / John W. Carroll
1995, 2nd edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426469
ISBN: 0521433347
Physical description; ix, 200 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Ch. 1. Centrality. 1.1. Reduction and the wholesome base. 1.2. Skirting empiricist influences. 1.3. Methodology. 1.4. Three features of laws -- Ch. 2. Humean analyses. 2.1. Naive regularity analyses. 2.2. Induction, laws, and lawhood. 2.3. Simplicity, strength, and best balance. 2.4. Epistemology and metaphysics -- Ch. 3. Humean supervenience. 3.1. The mirror argument. 3.2. Some conceptual geography: A look at chance. 3.3. Vacuous laws and the varieties of supervenience. 3.4. Ethics, mind, and the laws of nature -- Ch. 4. A realist perspective. 4.1. Lawless reality. 4.2. Van Fraassen's antirealism. 4.3. The argument for Humeanism -- Ch. 5. Causation. 5.1. The causal commitments of nomic dependencies. 5.2. Lawfully equivalent epiphenomena. 5.3. Probabilistic causation. 5.4. Instantaneous causation. 5.5. Causal commitments confirmed -- Ch. 6. The limits of inquiry -- Appendix A: Nomic platonism. A.1. Universals, lawhood, and reduction. A.2. Abstract particulars, lawhood, and reduction. A.3. Ontology and the problem of laws -- Appendix B: Defending (SC). B.1. Direct challenges. B.2. An indirect challenge. Subjects; Law (Philosophy). Philosophy of nature. Law (Philosophical concept). Causation. Science (Philosophy). Nature.
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