Natural laws in scientific practice /
"Marc Lange shows that natural laws collectively possess a unique range of invariance under counterfactual perturbations, a range which is characterized for the first time without appealing to the concept of a law. Lange argues that the laws fail to supervene on the non-nomic facts, just as the...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 1.
- Introduction
- 2.
- The Relation of Laws to Counterfactuals
- 3.
- Why are the Laws of Nature so Important to Science (I)?
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- Inductive Confirmability and Physical Necessity
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- Why are the Laws of Nature so Important to Science (II)?
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- Laws, Regularities, and Provisos
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- The Root Commitment
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- The Autonomy of Scientific Disciplines and Levels of Scientific Explanation.