Ceterus [as printed] paribus laws /
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable. After early worries the issue is vigorousl...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Science+Business Media,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial
- Ceteris paribus lost
- There is no such thing as a ceteris paribus law
- Ceteris paribus an inadequate representation for biological contingency
- Ceteris paribus laws: classification and deconstruction
- Laws, ceteris paribus conditions, and the dynamics of belief
- A semantics and methodology for ceteris paribus hypothesis
- Who's afraid of ceteris paribus laws? Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love them
- In favor of laws that are not ceteris paribus after all
- Cartwright on explanation and idealization.