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Laws and Symmetry
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Description
develops the empiricist view of science as a construction of models to represent the phenomena. Concepts of symmetry, transformation, and invariance illuminate the structure of such models. A central role is played in science by symmetry arguments, and it is shown how these function also in the
philosophical analysis of probability. The advocated approach presupposes no realism about laws or necessities in nature.
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Product details
- Paperback | 410 pages
- 138 x 215 x 23mm | 572g
- 04 Jan 1990
- Oxford University Press
- Clarendon Press
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- English
- figures, tables
- 0198248601
- 9780198248606
- 699,465
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Table of contents
science and metaphysics; Symmetries guiding modern science; Part IV: Symmetry and the illusion of logical probability: Indifference: The symmetries of probability; Symmetries of probability kinematics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Review quote
Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol 22, No 3-5 Dec 93 `a marvelously clear and incisive exposition of the problems facing definitions of laws of nature
The Philosophical Review, Vol 102, No 3 (July 1993) `the real excitement and power of the book comes from the new perspective it brings.' Times Higher Education Supplement `I wholeheartedly recommend this book. There are many things to be learnt from it, not least its incisive criticisms of "more metaphysical" theories of laws. The work is executed with great erudition and panache.'
Peter Menzies, Australian National University
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