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- catalog abstract ""Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11532833.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Howard Sankey -- I. Laws and Causes. Making Sense of Laws of Physics / Alan Chalmers -- II. Scientific Essentialism. Causal Powers and Laws of Nature / Brian Ellis. Comment on Ellis / D.M. Armstrong. Response to David Armstrong / Brian Ellis. Scientific Ellisianism / John Bigelow. Bigelow's Worries About Scientific Essentialism / Brian Ellis. The Naturalness Theory of Laws / Martin Leckey. Nomic Necessity and Natural States: Comment on the Leckey-Bigelow Theory of Laws / Caroline Lierse -- III. Laws, Quantities and Dispositions. Are the Laws of Nature Deductively Closed? / Alan Baker. Laws of Nature as Relations Between Quantities? / John Forge.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 358 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0792359143 (hb : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Australasian studies in history and philosophy of science ; v. 14.".
- catalog isPartOf "Australasian studies in the history and philosophy of science ; v. 14".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
- catalog subject "501 21".
- catalog subject "Causation Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Natural law Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Q175 .C4347 1999".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy Congresses.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Howard Sankey -- I. Laws and Causes. Making Sense of Laws of Physics / Alan Chalmers -- II. Scientific Essentialism. Causal Powers and Laws of Nature / Brian Ellis. Comment on Ellis / D.M. Armstrong. Response to David Armstrong / Brian Ellis. Scientific Ellisianism / John Bigelow. Bigelow's Worries About Scientific Essentialism / Brian Ellis. The Naturalness Theory of Laws / Martin Leckey. Nomic Necessity and Natural States: Comment on the Leckey-Bigelow Theory of Laws / Caroline Lierse -- III. Laws, Quantities and Dispositions. Are the Laws of Nature Deductively Closed? / Alan Baker. Laws of Nature as Relations Between Quantities? / John Forge.".
- catalog title "Causation and laws of nature / edited by Howard Sankey.".
- catalog type "Conference proceedings. fast".
- catalog type "text".