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Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 4)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants. It begins with an extensive introduction describing the historical, logical and philosophical background of the problems dealt with in the essays. Among the topics treated in the essays is the relationship between laws of nature and causal laws as well as the role of ceteris paribus clauses in scientific explanations. Traditionally, the problem of the unity of science was intimately connected to the problem of understanding the unity of nature. This fourth volume of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science tackles these problems as part of our consideration of the most fundamental aspects of scientific understanding.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan Faye
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Stockholm University, Sweden
Paul Needham
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Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Uwe Scheffler
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University of Konstanz, Germany
Max Urchs
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nature's Principles
Editors: Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler, Max Urchs
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3258-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3257-8Published: 22 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6826-2Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3258-5Published: 22 July 2005
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 292