| 书目名称 | Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: A Metaphysics of Causal Powers | | 编辑 | Michel Ghins | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The only book to present a synthetic view of the main issues of scientific realism and metaphysics of science.The first book to offer a comprehensive view of nature of theories, scientific realism and | | 丛书名称 | Synthese Library | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective. Accordingly, good arguments in favour of the existence of unobservable entities postulated by our best theories, such as electrons, must be inductively grounded on perceptual experience and not their explanatory power as most defenders of scientific realism claim. Similarly, belief in the reality of dispositions such as causal powers which ground the natural necessity of scientific laws must be based on experience. Hence, this book offers a synthetic presentation of an original metaphysics of science, namely a metaphysics of properties, both categorical and dispositional, while at the same time opposing strong versions of necessitarism according to which laws are true in all possible worlds..The main theses and arguments are clearly presentedin a non-technical way. Thus, on top of being of interest to the specialists of the topics discussed, it is also useful as a textbook in courses for third year and more advanced university students.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | | 关键词 | Metaphysics of Laws; Scientific Realism; Causal Powers; Models of realism; Inductivism in mathematics; de | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54227-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-54229-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-54227-5Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 | | issn_series | 0166-6991 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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