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Laws and Symmetry

Door Bas C. van Fraassen

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#342467-ZA26
Titel	Laws and Symmetry
Auteur	Fraassen, Bas C. van
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Oxford : Clarendon Press
Jaar van uitgave	1995
ISBN10	0198248601
ISBN13	9780198248606
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with numerous equations and diagrams, 8vo. Clarendon Paperbacks.
Samenvatting	Argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. This is a book in the philosophy of science, which examines the concept of laws of nature. The author analyses and rejects arguments for the existence of such laws, and argues that there is no point in us believing that they exist. Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. The author analyses and rejects the arguments that there are laws of nature, or that we must believe that there are. He argues that we should discard the idea of law as an inadequate clue to science. After exploring what this means for general epistemology, the book develops the empiricist view of science as ... (Lees verder)a construction of models to represent the phenomena. Concepts of symmetry, transformation, and invariance illuminate the structure of such models. A central role is played in science by symmetry arguments, and it is shown how these function also in the philosophical analysis of probability. The advocated approach presupposes no realism about laws or necessities in nature.
Pagina's	395
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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