Research Catalog

Title

Causation and laws of nature / edited by Howard Sankey.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sankey, Howard

Description

xvi, 358 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Australasian studies in the history and philosophy of science ; v. 14

Uniform Title

Australasian studies in history and philosophy of science ; v. 14.

Subject

• Science > Philosophy > Congresses
• Natural law > Congresses
• Causation > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Howard Sankey -- I. Laws and Causes. Making Sense of Laws of Physics / Alan Chalmers -- II. Scientific Essentialism. Causal Powers and Laws of Nature / Brian Ellis. Comment on Ellis / D.M. Armstrong. Response to David Armstrong / Brian Ellis. Scientific Ellisianism / John Bigelow. Bigelow's Worries About Scientific Essentialism / Brian Ellis. The Naturalness Theory of Laws / Martin Leckey. Nomic Necessity and Natural States: Comment on the Leckey-Bigelow Theory of Laws / Caroline Lierse -- III. Laws, Quantities and Dispositions. Are the Laws of Nature Deductively Closed? / Alan Baker. Laws of Nature as Relations Between Quantities? / John Forge.

ISBN

0792359143 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99041222^

OCLC

• 41951320
• SCSB-12290566

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library