How the Laws of Physics Lie - print on demand title

Zusatztext a significant addition to the literature Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Nancy Cartwright, Cartwright Nancy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.1983
• EAN: 9780198247043
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824704-3
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science