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Köp båda 2 för 1402 krCristian Soto, Metascience The editors of the volume under review have certainly done a great work by compiling some fruitful and novel contributions to our understanding of issues such as the aim and scope of the metaphysics of science, laws of nature, causation, and natural kinds, which are amongst the most heatedly discussed topics in the arena. ... I strongly recommend the volume to both scientists and philosophers as an engaging, thoroughly informed collection of papers on the current state of the metaphysics of science debate. It represents a valuable contribution to the everincreasing literature and may help to motivate new and fruitful investigations.
<br>Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Dispositions (OUP, 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotions (Routledge, 2011), and Getting Causes from Powers (OUP, 2011) with Rani Lill Anjum). He was editor of George Molnar's posthumous Powers: a Study in Metaphysics (OUP, 2003). <br>Matthew Tugby is Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he worked as Doctoral Researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Metaphysics of Science Project, based at the University of Nottingham. He has since published on the topic of dispositions and works on a range of issues at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of science.<br>
Introduction ; 1. What is the Metaphysics of Science? ; PART I: LAWS ; 2. Measurement, Laws, and Counterfactuals ; 3. Laws, Causes, and Invariance ; 4. How to Explain the Lorentz Transformations ; PART II: DISPOSITIONS AND CAUSES ; 5. A Disposition-based Process-theory of Causation ; 6. How to Activate a Power ; PART III: NATURAL KINDS ; 7. How to Carve Across the Joint in Nature without Abandoning Kripke-Putnam Semantics ; 8. Are Natural Kinds and Natural Properties Distinct? ; 9. Realism about Structures and Kinds ; PART IV: EMERGENCE ; 10. Nonlinearity and Metaphysical Emergence ; Index