Natural Laws as Dispositions / / Florian Fischer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Fischer, Florian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 76
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 165 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Laws of Nature --; 2. Analyses of dispositions --; 3. Composition --; 4. Progressing to Processes --; 5. Dispositional Laws of Nature --; Case File --; Theories of Dispositions --; The Story of Zucky --; Bibliography --; Author Index --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110594843; 9783110762488; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604214; 9783110603217
• ISSN: 2198-2066
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110594843
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Florian Fischer.

The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via dispositions. Laws of nature play a paramount role in philosophy, science and everyday life. Understanding laws of nature is philosophically interesting on its own right but also many important notions belonging to philosophy of science, like causation, prediction and explanation, are intimately related to the laws of nature. The book outlines the alleged characteristics of the laws of nature and introduces the main families of theories of laws of nature – neo-humean, ADT and dispositional theories. It then develops an account of dispositions the `triadic process picture of dispositions’ (TPD) and applies it to the debate about laws of nature. Finally, the (TPD) account of the necessity of the laws of nature is presented: laws of nature are naturally necessary and metaphysically contingent. Thus the book provides an introduction to the debates about laws of nature as well as dispositions, while at the same time developing a novel theory and thus is interesting for the beginner as well as expert in these fields.