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Earman, John
John Earman, Clark Glymour, Sandra D. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781402010200
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition: Reprinted from
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Natural and social sciences seem very often to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial. Collecting the philosophers of science in the field, this volume presents a discussion of the issue. It is useful for those involved in ceteris paribus laws.
Natural and social sciences seem very often 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. This volume collects the most prominent philosophers of science in the field and presents a lively, controversial, but well-integrated, highly original discussion of the issue. It will be the reference book in the coming years concerning ceteris paribus laws.
| ISBN | 1402010206 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9781402010200
(What's this?) | | Pages | 184 | | Publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Kluwer Academic Publishers | | Weight (grammes) | 438 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | Dordrecht | | Publication date | 01 Feb 2003 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Non-book description | 450 p. ; | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | 2003049625 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY | 501 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Editorial by John Earman and Clark Glymour and Sandra Mitchell | | 1 | | | | Ceteris Paribus Lost by John Earman and John Roberts and Sheldon Smith | | 5 | | | | There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law by Jim Woodward | | 27 | | | | Ceteris Paribus - An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency by Sandra D. Mitchell | | 53 | | | | Ceteris Paribus Laws: Classification and Deconstruction by Gerhard Schurz | | 75 | | | | Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief by Wolfgang Spohn | | 97 | | | | A Semantics and Methodology for Ceteris Paribus Hypothesis by Clark Glymour | | 119 | | | | Who's Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them by Marc Lange | | 131 | | | | In Favor of Laws that Are Not Ceteris Paribus After All by Nancy Cartwright | | 149 | | | | Cartwright on Explanation and Idealization by Mehmet Elgin and Elliott Sober | | 165 |
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