Laws of Nature : : Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions / / ed. by Friedel Weinert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ayala, Francisco,; Bigelow, John,; Davies, Paul,; Franklin, Allan,; Galison, Peter,; Giere, Ronald,; Haken, Hermann,; Lambert, Karl,; Leckey, Martin,; Morrison, Margaret,; Ruby, Jane,; Scheibe, Erhard,; Skyrms, Brian,; Steinle, Friedrich,; Swartz, Norman,; Weinert, Friedel,
• HerausgeberIn: Weinert, Friedel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophie und Wissenschaft : Transdisziplinäre Studien ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (776 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-X
• I. Introduction
• Laws of Nature – Laws of Science
• II. Philosophical Views
• The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities
• The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments
• The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature
• The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief
• The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws
• III. Scientific Views
• Laws and Experiment
• Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence
• Laws and Chaos
• Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws
• The Distinctness of Biology
• IV. Historical Views
• Origins of Scientific “Law”
• Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences
• Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments
• List of Contributors
• Subject Index
• Names Index