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" The dappled world : "
Nancy Cartwright.
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BL
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631130
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Cartwright, Nancy.
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The dappled world : : a study of the boundaries of science /\ Nancy Cartwright.
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ix, 247 pages ;; 24 cm
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0521643368
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: 9780521643368
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: 0521644119
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: 9780521644112
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.
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Pt. I. Where do laws of nature come from? 1. Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws. 2. Fables and models. 3. Nomological machines and the laws they produce -- Pt. II. Laws and their limits -- The laws we test in physics. 4. Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method -- Causal laws. 5. Causal diversity; causal stability -- Current economic theory. 6. Ceteris paribus laws and socio-economic machines -- Probabilistic laws. 7. Probability machines: chance set-ups and economic models -- Pt. III. The boundaries of quantum and classical physics and the territories they share. 8. How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory. 9. How quantum and classical theories relate.
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Science-- Methodology.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Physics-- Methodology.
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501
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Q175.C37 1999
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