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Laws of Nature

By John W. Carroll

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780521064132, 9780511619908, 0521433347, 0521064139, 0511619901, 9780521433341
LCC
B105.L3 C37 1994
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1085734 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
212\212
Topic
Education
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that empirically pure matters of fact need not even determine what the laws are. Similar, even stronger, conclusions are drawn about causation. Replacing the traditional view of laws and causation requiring some kind of foundational legitimacy, the author argues that these phenomena are inextricably intertwined with everything else.

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