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Science and Necessity

By John Bigelow , Robert Pargetter

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
9780511551611, 0521390273, 0521065666, 0511551614, 9780521065665, 9780521390279
LCC
Q175 .B554 1991
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2895847 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages
424\423
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book espouses an innovative theory of scientific realism in which due weight is given to mathematics and logic. The authors argue that mathematics can be understood realistically if it is seen to be the study of universals, of properties and relations, of patterns and structures, the kinds of things which can be in several places at once. Taking this kind of scientific platonism as their point of departure, they show how the theory of universals can account for probability, laws of nature, causation, and explanation, and explore the consequences in all these fields. This will be an important book for all philosophers of science, logicians, and metaphysicians, and their graduate students. The readership will also include those outside philosophy interested in the interrelationship of philosophy and science.

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