A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice

ISBN-13: 9781009010436 / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str.

Andreas Huttemann

Opis

Provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, yielding new accounts of lawhood, causation and reduction.

Recenzje

'A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice constitutes a highly original contribution to the burgeoning field of the metaphysics of science. Clear, well-argued and ambitious in scope, it will be required reading for those seeking cutting-edge work on such issues as laws, causation, reductionism and fundamentality.' Travis Dumsday, Concordia University of Edmonton

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Laws of nature and their modal surface structure; 2. The problem of ceteris paribus clauses; 3. Causation – conceptual groundwork; 4. Causation – application and augmentation; 5. Reductive practices; 6. Reduction and physical foundationalism; 7. Reduction and ontological monism; 8. Concluding remarks: methods and epistemic sources in metaphysics.