Titlebook: Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: A Metaphysics of Causal Powers; Michel Ghins Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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A Dualist Metaphysics of Nature,categorical properties and powers. Like Ellis, I defend a dualist metaphysics of nature. However, unlike him, I attempt to dispense with essences and natural kinds and advocate an enlarged view of categorical properties. These include not only spatial and structural properties but all observable pro

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0166-6991 rehensive view of nature of theories, scientific realism andThis 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. Accor

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ogramme as well as tensions with other educational policies and sociocultural norms in the country. In addition, there were interacting levels that influenced—both positively and negatively—the implementation process and thus eventual programme success. This study has important implications for scie

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What Is a Scientific Theory?,the explanatory power of a theory relies on mechanistic models which make causal laws true. A causal law is defined in a syntactic way as a universal proposition which contains a time derivative (or something equivalent to it), which refers to the effect whereas the other terms refer to the cause. F

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Scientific Realism: What Is at Stake?,us: we have better reasons to believe in the existence of some detected entities (sets of properties) and in the truth of some propositions about them rather than adopting an agnostic suspension of judgement. Detected properties are properties that are observable in principle, but which can only be

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Scientific Realism: A Defence,defence of scientific realism makes it possible to respond to the classical underdetermination objection according to which theories are undetermined by the available data. I also criticize the famous antirealist argument developed by Larry Laudan and known as the historical pessimistic meta-inducti