
Ceterus Paribus Laws
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 9. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
III, 174 pages
978-90-481-6173-7 (ISBN)
Description
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by
ceteris paribus
clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable. After early worries the issue is vigorously discussed in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind since ca. 15 years.
This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original and up-to-date discussion of the issue. It will be the reference book in the coming years concerning ceteris paribus laws.
This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original and up-to-date discussion of the issue. It will be the reference book in the coming years concerning ceteris paribus laws.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
III, 174 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-481-6173-7 (9789048161737)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-1009-1
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John Earman | Clark Glymour | Sandra Mitchell
Ceterus Paribus Laws
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02/2003
1st Edition
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
Ceteris Paribus Lost.- There Is No Such Thing as a CeterisParibus Law.- Ceteris Paribus - An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency.- Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction.- Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief.- A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypothesis.- Who's Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them.- In Favor of Laws that Are Not Ceteris Paribus After All.- Cartwright on Explanation and Idealization.