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Cartwright attempts to argue from an analysis of the composition of forces, and more generally the composition of laws, to the conclusion that laws must be regarded as false. A response to Cartwright ...
Between Laws and Models: Some Philosophical Morals of Lagrangian Mechanics
Classical mechanics Lagrangian mechanics
2008/4/10
I extract some philosophical morals from some aspects of Lagrangian mechanics. (A companion paper will present similar morals from Hamiltonian mechanics and Hamilton-Jacobi theory.) One main moral con...
describe a problem about the relations among symmetries, laws, and measurable quantities. I explain why several ways of trying to solve it will not work, and I sketch a solution that might work. I di...
Law-like generalisations hedged with a ceteris paribus-clause such as widely in use in psychology, the social and biological sciences, are best construed as incomplete strict laws. These incomplete la...
A Curve Fitting Approach to Ceteris Paribus-Laws
Ceteris Paribus-Laws A Curve Fitting Approach
2008/4/9
Law-like generalisations hedged with a ceteris paribus-clause are incomplete strict laws. They can be “fleshed out” by adding a set of enabling, or completing, conditions to their antecedent. The natu...
Laws and Models in a Theory of Idealization
approximation laws of nature idealized laws ceteris paribus laws
2008/4/1
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization; and after identifying one of the major roles of idealization as detaching compo...
This paper explores some connections between competing conceptions of scientific laws on the one hand, and a problem in the foundations of statistical mechanics on the other. I examine two proposals f...
Alfarabi:Platos Laws
2008/1/3
Alfarabi:Plato's Laws
Translated by Muhsin MahdiPlato's Laws consists of an introduction and accounts of the first nine books of Plato's Laws. In the introduction, Alfarabi explains Plato's art of wr...
Laws and Models in a Theory of Idealization
approximation laws of nature idealized laws ceteris paribus laws categorical property disposition propensity capacity
2011/9/7
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization; and after identifying one of the major roles of idealization as detaching compo...