Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature

Natural Order in the Light of Contemporary Science

AvYemima Ben-Menahem

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science

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Beskrivning

One of the philosophical worries is that the idiom of law of nature, especially when combined with the notion of laws 'governing' individual events and processes, is no longer as intelligible as it used to be in the theistic context in which the formulation of laws became central to science.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-15
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:836 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
Antal sidor:381
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030967741

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Yemima Ben-Menahem of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a philosopher of science, specializing in the philosophy of physics. She is author of Conventionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Causation in Science (Princeton University Press, 2018. She edited Hilary Putnam (Cambridge University Press (2005) and coedited (with Meir Hemmo) Probability in Physics (Springer, 2012)

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. (Introduction) "Why Rethinking is required"(Yemima Ben-Menahem).- Chapter 2. "On Two Slights to Noether's Theorem" (J. Brian Pitts).- Chapter 3. "How To Make the World Safe for Autonomy, or: How to Fodor-Kitcher an Albert-Loewer"(Marc Lange).- Chapter 4. "Models as Ersatz Law."(Arnon Levy).- Chapter 5. TBA (Orly Shenker).- Chapter 6. "Laws of Nature as Epistemic Infrastructure, Not as Metaphysical Superstructure" (Richard Healey).- Chapter 7. "Making Modality Safe for Empiricists" (John D. Norton).- Chapter 8. "Wheeler's Law Without Law and other Forms of Lawlessness" (Yemima Ben-Menahem).- Chapter 9. "Ratbag Idealism"(Gordon Belot).- Chapter 10. "Relational Mechanics and a Large Kantian Component of Laws of Nature"(Sheldin Goldstein and Nino Zanghì).- Chapter 11. "Minimal Primitivism About Laws of Nature" (Sheldon Goldstein and Eddy Chen).