Readings on laws of nature /
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction / John W. Carroll
- 1. Laws of Nature / Fred I. Dretske
- 2. The Nature of Laws / Michael Tooley
- 3. Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts? / Nancy Cartwright
- 4. Confirmation and the Nomological / Frank Jackson and Robert Pargetter
- 5. Induction, Explanation, and Natural Necessity / John Foster
- 6. Armstrong on Laws and Probabilities / Bas C. Van Fraassen
- 7. Confirmation and Law-likeness / Elliott Sober
- 8. The World as One of a Kind: Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature / John Bigelow, Brian Ellis, and Caroline Lierse
- 9. Natural Laws and the Problem of Provisos / Marc Lange
- 10. Humean Supervenience / Barry Loewer
- 11. Ceteris Paribus, There Is No Problem of Provisos / John Earman and John Roberts
- 12. The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature / Helen Beebee
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
