Metaphysics and Science

Autor: Stephen Mumford, Matthew Tugby

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Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipli...

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Stephen Mumford, Matthew Tugby

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Publicat

2013

Pagini

256

EAN

9780199674527

ISBN

0199674523

Enbook ID

02536824

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

538

Dimensiuni

164 x 241 x 20

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Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. In the opening chapter, a definition of the metaphysics of science is offered, one which explains why the topics of laws, causation, natural kinds, and emergence are at the discipline's heart. The book is then divided into four sections, which group together papers from leading academics on each of those four topics. Among the questions discussed are: How are laws and measurement methods related? Can a satisfactory reductive account of laws be given? How can Lorentz transformation laws be explained? How are dispositions triggered? What role should dispositional properties play in our understanding of causation? Are natural kinds and natural properties distinct? How is the Kripke-Putnam semantics for natural kind terms related to the natural kind essentialist thesis? What would have to be the case for natural kind terms to have determinate reference? What bearing, if any, does nonlinearity in science have on the issue of metaphysical emergence? This collection will be of interest to philosophers, scientists and post-graduates working on problems at the intersection of metaphysics and science.

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