How the Laws of Physics Lie
Nancy Cartwright
In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, the author argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe regularities that exist in nature. Cartwright draws from many real-life examples to propound a novel distinction: that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.
Thể loại:
Năm:
1983
In lần thứ:
1st
Nhà xuát bản:
Oxford University Press
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
232
ISBN 10:
0198247044
ISBN 13:
9780198247043
File:
PDF, 1.75 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1983