Preface.- Contributing Authors.- Introduction; Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffer and Max Urchs.- Why are (most) laws of nature mathematical? Mauro Dorato.- How Nature Makes Sense; Jan Faye.- Cartwright and Nowak on Laws and Explanation; Igor Hanzel.- The Explanatory Virtues of Probabilistic Causal Laws; Henrik H llsten.- The Nature of Natural Laws; Lars-Göran Johansson.- How the Ceteris Paribus Laws of Physics Lie; Geert Keil.- Necessary Laws; Max Kistler.- Laws of Nature - A Skeptical View; Uwe Meixner.- The laws' properties; Johannes Persson.- Laws of Nature versus System Laws; Gerhard Schurz.- Psychologism, Universality and the Use of Logic; Werner Stelzner.- Index.
EAN/ISBN : 9781402032585
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
Discussed keywords: Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Faye, Jan - Needham, Paul - Scheffler, Uwe