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Natural Laws as Dispositions (Hardcover)
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Natural Laws as Dispositions (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
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The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via
dispositions. Laws of nature play a paramount role in philosophy,
science and everyday life. Understanding laws of nature is
philosophically interesting on its own right but also many
important notions belonging to philosophy of science, like
causation, prediction and explanation, are intimately related to
the laws of nature. The book outlines the alleged characteristics
of the laws of nature and introduces the main families of theories
of laws of nature - neo-humean, ADT and dispositional theories. It
then develops an account of dispositions the `triadic process
picture of dispositions' (TPD) and applies it to the debate about
laws of nature. Finally, the (TPD) account of the necessity of the
laws of nature is presented: laws of nature are naturally necessary
and metaphysically contingent. Thus the book provides an
introduction to the debates about laws of nature as well as
dispositions, while at the same time developing a novel theory and
thus is interesting for the beginner as well as expert in these
fields.
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