Natural Laws in Scientific Practice by Marc Lange

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Natural Laws in Scientific Practice by Marc Lange

It is often presumed that the laws of nature have special significance for scientific reasoning. But the laws' distinctive roles have proven notoriously difficult to identify--leading some philosophers to question if they hold such roles at all. This study offers original accounts of the roles that natural laws play in connection with counterfactual conditionals, inductive projections, and scientific explanations, and of what the laws must be in order for them to be capable of playing these roles. Particular attention is given to laws of special sciences, levels of scientific explanation, natural kinds, ceteris-paribus clauses, and physically necessary non-laws.

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Title	Natural Laws in Scientific Practice
Author	Marc Lange
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2007-10-04
Number of pages	352
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