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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Earman, John, Glymour, Clark N., Mitchell, Sandra D., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.