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" Laws of nature / "
edited by Walter Ott and Lydia Patton.
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BL
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873472
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Laws of nature /\ edited by Walter Ott and Lydia Patton.
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First edition.
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New York, NY, United States of America :: Oxford University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (ix, 264 pages)
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0191063711
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: 0191809055
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: 9780191063718
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: 9780191809057
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0198746776
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9780198746775
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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?
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Natural law.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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LAW-- Essays.
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LAW-- General Practice.
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LAW-- Jurisprudence.
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LAW-- Paralegals Paralegalism.
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LAW-- Practical Guides.
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LAW-- Reference.
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Natural law.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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340.112
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BD581
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BD581.L29 2018e
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K428*
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Ott, Walter R.
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Patton, Lydia
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