rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Laws of nature
  name:
    name part: Ott, Walter R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Patton, Lydia
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 264 pages)
  abstract: Twelve brand-new essays by an international team of leading philosophers examine central questions on the laws of nature, such as: what is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? And, are there exceptions to the laws of nature?
  table of contents: Institutions and assumptions in the debate over laws of nature / Walter Ott, Lydia Patton -- Early modern roots of the philosophical concept of a law of nature / Helen Hattab -- Laws of nature and the divine order of things / Mary Domski -- Leges Sive Natura / Walter Ott -- Laws and powers in the frame of nature / Stathis Psillos -- Laws and ideal unity / Angela Breitenbach -- Becoming humean / John W. Carroll -- A perspectivalist better best system account of lawhood / Michela Massimi -- Laws: An invariance-based account / James Woodward -- How the explanations of natural laws make some reducible physical properties natural and explanatorily powerful / Marc Lange -- Laws and their exceptions / Stephen Mumford -- Are laws of nature consistent with contingency? / Nancy Cartwright, Pedro Merlussi.
  note: edited by Walter Ott and Lydia Patton.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  subject:
    topic: Natural law
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie de la nature
  subject:
    topic: Droit naturel
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: General Practice
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Jurisprudence
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Paralegals & Paralegalism
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Practical Guides
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Natural law
  classification: BD581
  classification: BD581 .L29 2018e
  classification: K428*
  classification: 340.112
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Laws of nature
    origin info:
      publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press, 2018
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2017961506
    identifier: (OCoLC)1006717339
  identifier: 9780191063718
  identifier: 0191063711
  identifier: 9780191809057
  identifier: 0191809055
  identifier: 9780198746775
  identifier: 0198746776
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 180521
    record change date: 20260319175604.0
    record identifier: in00005716017
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng