Ceterus Paribus Laws
Editors: Earman, John, Glymour, Clark, Mitchell, Sandra (Eds.)
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Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable. After early worries the issue is vigorously discussed in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind since ca. 15 years.
This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original and up-to-date discussion of the issue. It will be the reference book in the coming years concerning ceteris paribus laws.
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Ceteris Paribus Lost
Pages 5-25
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There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law
Pages 27-52
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Ceteris Paribus — An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency
Pages 53-74
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Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction
Pages 75-96
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Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief
Pages 97-118
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Ceterus Paribus Laws
- Editors
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- John Earman
- Clark Glymour
- Sandra Mitchell
- Copyright
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-1009-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-1009-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-1020-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-6173-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- III, 174
- Additional Information
- Reprinted from ERKENNTNIS, 57:3
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