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  title info:
    title: Metaphysics and science
  name:
    name part: Mumford, Stephen.
  name:
    name part: Tugby, Matthew.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This collection brings together the latest new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science. A new definition of this line of philosophical enquiry is developed, and leading academics offer original essays on four key topics at the heart of the subject - laws, causation natural kinds, and emergence.
  table of contents: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1. What is the metaphysics of science?""; ""Part I. Laws""; ""2. Measurement, laws, and counterfactuals""; ""3. Laws, causes, and invariance""; ""4. How to explain the Lorentz transformations""; ""Part II. Dispositions and Causes""; ""5. A disposition-based process-theory of causation""; ""6. How to activate a power""; ""Part III. Natural Kinds""; ""7. How to carve across the joints in nature without abandoning Kripkeâ€?Putnam semantics""; ""8. Are natural kinds and natural properties distinct?""
  table of contents: 9. Realism about structure and kindsPart IV. Emergence -- 10. Nonlinearity and metaphysical emergence -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- XYZ
  note: edited by Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Métaphysique
  subject:
    topic: metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: Q175
  classification: 501
  classification: 08.35
  classification: N02
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    title info:
      title: Metaphysics and science
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013
    identifier: (OCoLC)854310121
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2013370253
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mind Association occasional series
  identifier: 9780191656330
  identifier: 019165633X
  identifier: 0199674523
  identifier: 9780199674527
  identifier: 9780191760013
  identifier: 0191760013
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 130731
    record change date: 20260318192331.3
    record identifier: in00005710012
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng