Nature's Principles

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This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants.

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9781402032578   9048168260   1402032579

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Why Are (Most) Laws of Nature Mathematical?  (pages 55--75)Mauro Dorato
How nature makes sense.  (pages 77--102)Jan Faye
Nancy Cartwright and Leszek Nowak on Scientific Laws and Scientific Explanation.  (pages 103--135)Igor Hanzel
The Explanatory Virtues of Probabilistic Causal Laws.  (pages 137--150)Henrik Hallsten
The Nature of Natural Laws.  (pages 151--166)Lars-Göran Johansson
How the Ceteris Paribus Laws of Physics Lie.  (pages 167-200)Geert Keil
Necessary Laws.  (pages 201-227)Max Kistler
Laws of Nature—A Skeptical View.  (pages 229--238)Uwe Meixner
The laws' properties.  (pages 239--254)Johannes Persson
Laws of nature versus system laws.  (pages 255--268)Gerhard Schurz
Psychologism, Universality and the Use of Logic.  (pages 269--288)Werner Stelzner

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Jan Faye
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