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Metaphysics and Science (Hardcover)
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Metaphysics and Science (Hardcover)
Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
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Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within
an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science.
In the opening chapter, a definition of the metaphysics of science
is offered, one which explains why the topics of laws, causation,
natural kinds, and emergence are at the discipline's heart. The
book is then divided into four sections, which group together
papers from leading academics on each of those four topics. Among
the questions discussed are: How are laws and measurement methods
related? Can a satisfactory reductive account of laws be given? How
can Lorentz transformation laws be explained? How are dispositions
triggered? What role should dispositional properties play in our
understanding of causation? Are natural kinds and natural
properties distinct? How is the Kripke-Putnam semantics for natural
kind terms related to the natural kind essentialist thesis? What
would have to be the case for natural kind terms to have
determinate reference? What bearing, if any, does nonlinearity in
science have on the issue of metaphysical emergence? This
collection will be of interest to philosophers, scientists and
post-graduates working on problems at the intersection of
metaphysics and science.
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