The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Law of Appearance

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Law of Appearance

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      Pages 3-13

   3. Popper’s Moa

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      Pages 14-30

3. The Idealizational Law of Essence

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   2. The Idealizational Law of Essence

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      Pages 33-51

   3. Ontological Foundations

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      Pages 52-59

4. The Inherent Law of Essence

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   2. The Inherent Law of Essence

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      Pages 63-84

   3. The Three Faces of Measure

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   4. The Essential Formality

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      Pages 108-121

   5. The Inherent Law and Essentialism

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   6. Substance-Subject

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5. The Epistemic Background

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   2. Epistemology and Logic

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      Pages 157-174

   3. Hegel’s and Marx’s Categories: A Comparison

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      Pages 175-196

6. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

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      Pages 197-200

7. Back Matter

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The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author provides the concept for the reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to the quality and quantity of its capacities. Finally, he provides concepts for scientific laws expressing how a certain cause, due to the quantity and quality of its capacities, generates the quantitative and qualitative determinations of its manifestations. The book is intended for philosophers of science and philosophers of social science, as well as for natural and social scientists.

• Hegel
• Karl R. Popper
• Marx
• epistemology
• knowledge
• logic
• philosophy
• philosophy of science
• reason
• science
• subject

• Comenius University, Slovak Republic

  Igor Hanzel

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