The Dappled World
A Study of the Boundaries of Science
- Author: Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Date Published: October 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521643368
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In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a patchwork of laws of nature. Combining classic and newly written essays, The Dappled World offers important methodological lessons for both the natural and the social sciences, and will interest anyone who wants to understand how modern science works.
Read more- Cartwright is one of the most distinguished philosophers of science writing today
- Style is philosophical, but not technical
- Of interest to philosophers of the natural and social sciences and also to general philosophers
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"Cartwright's book provides an account of science that does well to bring matters related to scientific practice into the philosophy of science." Review of Metaphysics
See more reviews"The Dappled World is Nancy Cartwright's latest and...best exposition of an approach to philosophy of science she has been developing for two decades." Ronald N. Giere, Philosophy of Science
"The Dappled World offers an inspiring picture of the nature of reality, and stimulating advice on how to interpret scientific theories....Fans of Cartwright's earlier books will find some of theri major themes further elucidated here." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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- Date Published: October 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521643368
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 156 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Where Do Laws of Nature Come From?:
1. Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws
2. Fables and models
3. Nomological machines and the laws they produce
Part II. Laws and their Limits:
4. Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method
5. Causal diversity, causal stability
6. Ceteris paribus laws and the socio-economic machines
7. Probability 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 relate.
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