Ceteris Paribus Laws,9781402010200

Ceteris Paribus Laws

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ISBN13: 9781402010200
ISBN10: 1402010206
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): Kluwer Academic Pub
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Summary

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 vigorously discussed in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind since ca. 15 years. This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original and up-to-date discussion of the issue. It will be the reference book in the coming years concerning ceteris paribus laws.

Table of Contents

Editorial
1(4)
John Earman
Clark Glymour
Sandra Mitchell
Ceteris Paribus Lost
5(22)
John Earman
John Roberts
Sheldon Smith
There Is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law
27(26)
Jim Woodward
Ceteris Paribus -- An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency
53(22)
Sandra D. Mitchell
Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction
75(22)
Gerhard Schurz
Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief
97(22)
Wolfgang Spohn
A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypothesis
119(12)
Clark Glymour
Who's Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them
131(18)
Marc Lange
In Favor of Laws that Are Not Ceteris Paribus After All
149(16)
Nancy Cartwright
Cartwright on Explanation and Idealization
165
Mehmet Elgin
Elliott Sober

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