Laws and symmetry / Bas C. van Fraassen.

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Van Fraassen, Bas C, 1941-

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Oxford University Press

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 395 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0198248601
9780198248606
9780191519994
0191519995
9780191597459
0191597457

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Laws and symmetry.DDC classification:

113 19

LOC classification:

BD581 .V27 1989eb

Other classification:

08.35

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Contents:

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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Summary: '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 metaphysical notions.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-385) and index.

'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 metaphysical notions.

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