The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology write by Igor Hanzel. This book was released on 2013-03-14. The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author provides the concept for the reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to the quality and quantity of its capacities. Finally, he provides concepts for scientific laws expressing how a certain cause, due to the quantity and quality of its capacities, generates the quantitative and qualitative determinations of its manifestations. The book is intended for philosophers of science and philosophers of social science, as well as for natural and social scientists.
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy of Science write by Mario Bunge. This book was released on . Philosophy of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Part I of Philosophy of Science offers a preview of the scheme of science and the logical and semantical tools that will be used throughout the work. The account of scientific research begins with part II, where Bunge discusses formulating the problem to be solved, hypothesis, scientific law, and theory.
Nature's Principles
Nature's Principles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Principles write by Jan Faye. This book was released on 2005-07-22. Nature's Principles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants. It begins with an extensive introduction describing the historical, logical and philosophical background of the problems dealt with in the essays. Among the topics treated in the essays is the relationship between laws of nature and causal laws as well as the role of ceteris paribus clauses in scientific explanations. Traditionally, the problem of the unity of science was intimately connected to the problem of understanding the unity of nature. This fourth volume of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science tackles these problems as part of our consideration of the most fundamental aspects of scientific understanding.
Laws and Symmetry
Laws and Symmetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laws and Symmetry write by Bas C. van Fraassen. This book was released on 1989-11-02. Laws and Symmetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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.
Laws of Nature
Laws of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laws of Nature write by Friedel Weinert. This book was released on 2011-05-02. Laws of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
