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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.
""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?""
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
edited by Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby.
Includes bibliographical references and index.