Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities - Couverture souple

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Koslow, Arnold

 
9783030188481: Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities
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ISBN 10 : 3030188485 ISBN 13 : 9783030188481
Editeur : Springer, 2021

Synopsis

The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG). Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a contingent generalization shows that the generalization is not accidental. The second part involves physical theories, their modality, and their explanatory power. In particular, it is shown that (1) Each theory has a theoretical implication structure associated with it, such that there are new physical modal operators on these structures and also special modal entities that are in these structures. A special subset of the physical modals, the nomic modals are associated with the laws of theories. (2) The familiar idea that theories always explain laws by deduction of them has to be seriously modified in light of the fact that there are a host of physical theories (including for example, Newtonian Classical mechanics, Hamiltonian, and Lagrangian theory, and probability theory) that we believe are schematic (they do not have any truth value). Nevertheless, we think that there is a kind of non-deductive explanation and generality that they achieve by subsumtion under a schema.

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À propos de l?auteur

Philosophy Website (gc.cuny.edu) Philosophy and History of Science, logic and philosophy of mathematics, Bayard Cutting Traveling Fellow (Columbia University, Stanford, Cambridge UK), Ford Foundation Fellow (King's College, Cambridge UK), NEH Fellow (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY).

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Éditeur
Springer
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030188485
ISBN 13 
9783030188481
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
196
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ISBN 10 :  3030188450 ISBN 13 :  9783030188450
Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020
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