Laws and symmetry /
'Laws and Symmetry's' three main objectives are: first, to show the failure of current philosophical accounts of laws of nature; second, to refute arguments for the reality of laws of nature; third, to contribute to an epistemology and a philosophy of science antithetical to such meta...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-385) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I, Are there laws of nature? What are laws of nature? ; Ideal science: David Lewis's account of laws ; Necessity, worlds, and chance ; Universals: laws grounded in nature -- Part II, Belief as rational but lawless. Inference to the best explanation: salvation by laws? ; Towards a new epistemology ; What if there are no laws? A manifesto -- Part III, Symmetry as guide to theory. Introduction to the semantic approach ; Symmetry arguments in science and metaphysics ; Symmetries guiding modern science -- Part IV, Symmetry and the illusion of logical probability. Indifference: the symmetries of probability ; Symmetries of probability kinematics. | |
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