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Laws of Nature as Identities of Facts
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Laws of Nature as Identities of Facts. |
| 개인저자 | Maxwell, Mark Gerald. |
| 단체저자명 | Yale University. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Yale University., 2018. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018. |
| 형태사항 | 148 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertation Abstracts International 79-11A(E). Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9780438194113 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2018. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Adviser: Michael Della Rocca. |
| 요약 | I introduce a view of laws of nature on which laws are to be understood in terms of identities of fact. If it is a law of nature that the phenomena X and Y always appear together, then we can consider the possibility that the reason they always |
| 요약 | In order to understand how these seemingly disparate facts can be "identical", I introduce the "bare facts". These are what we might ordinarily call the facts, but stripped of their ontological commitments. Setting aside ontological commitments |
| 요약 | Chapter 1 is a direct investigation of laws of nature, showing how to productively violate the presupposed ontology by means of an identity of facts. I start with a historical example, where understanding an empirical regularity as an identity c |
| 요약 | Chapter 2 deals with what looks like a major counterintuitive implication of Chapter 1. Not only do I suggest that synchronic laws of nature can be explained as identities, but also that diachronic laws can be explained as identities. But then t |
| 요약 | Taking a view of laws that allows for (or demands) conceptual change will lead to different perspectives on other aspects of science as well. Chapter 3 dips into epistemology, contemplating an application to the problem of induction. Using the s |
| 요약 | Chapter 4 steps back to consider what it is for facts to be identical, beginning the project of establishing the "bare facts" as a metaphysical underpinning for the conceptual freedom that we have exploited in chapters 1, 2, and 3. To that end, |
| 일반주제명 | Philosophy of science. Metaphysics. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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