Metaphysics and Science - Stephen Mumford
Metaphysics and Science - Stephen Mumford Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. The book is then divided…
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Metaphysics and Science - Stephen Mumford
Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. The book is then divided into four sections, which group together papers from leading academics on each of those four topics. 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.
Can a satisfactory reductive account of laws be given? Among the questions discussed are: How are laws and measurement methods related?