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...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1989-11-02
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This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1989-08-10
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In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1983-06-09
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In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1980-12-11
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