Ceterus paribus laws
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Ceterus paribus laws
Kluwer Academic, c2002
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Erkenntnis
Ceteris paribus laws
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Note
"Reprinted from: Erkenntnis, vol. 57:3 (2002)"
Pages also numbered 278-450
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Natural and social sciences seem very often to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable. This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original discussion of the issue. It will be the reference book in the coming years concerning ceteris paribus laws.
Table of Contents
- Editorial
- J. Earman, C. Glymour, S. Mitchell. Ceteris Paribus Lost
- J. Earman, J. Roberts, S. Smith. There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law
- J. Woodward. Ceteris Paribus An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency
- S.D. Mitchell. Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction
- G. Schurz. Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief
- W. Spohn. A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypothesis
- C. Glymour. Who's Afraid of Ceteris Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them
- M. Lange. In Favor of Laws that are Not Ceteris Paribus After All
- N. Cartwright. Cartwright on Explanation and Idealization
- M. Elgin, E. Sober.
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