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The dappled world : a study of the boundaries of science / Nancy Cartwright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: ix, 247p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521644112 (pbk.) :
  • 9780521643368 (hbk.) :
  • 9780521644112
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 CAR
Contents:
Part I.Where do laws of nature come from? -- 2.Fables and models -- 3.Nomological machines and the laws they produce -- Part II.Laws and their limits -- The laws we test in physics -- 4.Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method -- Casual laws -- 5.Casual diversity; casual stability -- Current economic theory. 6.Ceterius paribus laws and socio-economic machines -- Probabilistic laws -- 7.Probablity machines: chance set-ups and economic models -- Part III.The boundaries of quantum and classical physics and the territories they share -- 8.How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory -- 9.How quantum and classical theories related.
Summary: It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this volume, Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 501 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 218605

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-241) and index.

Part I.Where do laws of nature come from? -- 2.Fables and models -- 3.Nomological machines and the laws they produce -- Part II.Laws and their limits -- The laws we test in physics -- 4.Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method -- Casual laws -- 5.Casual diversity; casual stability -- Current economic theory. 6.Ceterius paribus laws and socio-economic machines -- Probabilistic laws -- 7.Probablity machines: chance set-ups and economic models -- Part III.The boundaries of quantum and classical physics and the territories they share -- 8.How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory -- 9.How quantum and classical theories related.

It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this volume, Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary.

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