Ceterus Paribus Laws
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, 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. After early worries the issue is vigorousl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Ceteris Paribus Lost
- There Is No Such Thing as a CeterisParibus Law
- Ceteris Paribus — An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency
- Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction
- Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief
- A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypothesis
- Who’s Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them
- In Favor of Laws that Are Not Ceteris Paribus After All
- Cartwright on Explanation and Idealization