How the Laws of Physics Lie

Nancy Cartwright

ISBN 10: 0198247044 / ISBN 13: 9780198247043

Edité par Oxford University Press, GB, 1983

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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 `anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.

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• Titre: How the Laws of Physics Lie
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, GB
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198247044
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198247043
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: New
• Dimensions: 21,6 L x 14 H x 1,34 P (centimètres) 21,6 centimètres de largeur par 14 centimètres de hauteur par 1,34 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 333 grammes

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In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, the author argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe regularities that exist in nature. Cartwright draws from many real-life examples to propound a novel distinction: that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.

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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 `anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.