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Laws of Nature : Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions / ed. by Friedel Weinert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophie und Wissenschaft : Transdisziplinäre Studien ; 8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (776 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110139181
  • 9783110869859
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 20
LOC classification:
  • Q175 .L328 1995eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-X -- I. Introduction -- Laws of Nature – Laws of Science -- II. Philosophical Views -- The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities -- The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments -- The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature -- The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief -- The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws -- III. Scientific Views -- Laws and Experiment -- Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence -- Laws and Chaos -- Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws -- The Distinctness of Biology -- IV. Historical Views -- Origins of Scientific “Law” -- Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences -- Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Names Index
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110869859

I-X -- I. Introduction -- Laws of Nature – Laws of Science -- II. Philosophical Views -- The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities -- The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments -- The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature -- The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief -- The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws -- III. Scientific Views -- Laws and Experiment -- Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence -- Laws and Chaos -- Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws -- The Distinctness of Biology -- IV. Historical Views -- Origins of Scientific “Law” -- Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences -- Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Names Index

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In English.

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