Nature's Metaphysics
Laws and Properties
(Sprache: Englisch)
Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws...
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Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature, defending the claim that laws are metaphysically necessary. Professional philosophers and advanced students working in metaphysics and the philosophy of science will find this book both provocative and stimulating.
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Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature, defending the claim that laws are metaphysically necessary. Professional philosophers and advanced students working in metaphysics and the philosophy of science will find this book both provocative and stimulating.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Nature's Metaphysics “
- 1: Introduction - laws and properties
- 2: Dispositions
- 3: Dispositional essentialism and the laws of nature
- 4: Categoricalism
- 5: Dispositional essentialism, modality, and intentionality
- 6: The regress objection
- 7: Structural properties
- 8: The illusion of nomic contingency
- 9: Are there any laws, and if so what are they?
- 10: Concluding remarks
- References
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexander Bird
- 2007, 246 Seiten, Maße: 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199227012
- ISBN-13: 9780199227013
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Alexander Bird has done an excellent job in injecting argumentative rigour into a debate that has come to seem to some as having reached stalemate.... The sheer weight and quality of argument in this book show that this is a debate that has a long way to run yet. Helen Beebee, Times Literary Supplement
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