Nature's Principles
One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants. It beg
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NATURE'S RINCIPLES NATURE'S PPRINCIPLES
Edited by Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs
NATURE’S PRINCIPLES
LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND THE UNITY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 4
Editors Shahid Rahman, University of Lille III, France John Symons, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A. Editorial Board Jean Paul van Bendegem, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Jacques Dubucs, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, France Anne Fagot-Largeault, Collège de France, France Bas van Fraassen, Princeton University, U.S.A. Dov Gabbay, King’s College London, U.K. Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University, U.S.A. Karel Lambert, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. Graham Priest, University of Melbourne, Australia Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki, Finland Heinrich Wansing, Technical University Dresden, Germany Timothy Williamson, Oxford University, U.K. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science aims to reconsider the question of the unity of science in light of recent developments in logic. At present, no single logical, semantical or methodological framework dominates the philosophy of science. However, the editors of this series believe that formal techniques like, for example, independence friendly logic, dialogical logics, multimodal logics, game theoretic semantics and linear logics, have the potential to cast new light on basic issues in the discussion of the unity of science. This series provides a venue where philosophers and logicians can apply specific technical insights to fundamental philosophical problems. While the series is open to a wide variety of perspectives, including the study and analysis of argumentation and the critical discussion of the relationship between logic and the philosophy of science, the aim is to provide an integrated picture of the scientific enterprise in all its diversity.
Nature’s Principles Edited by
JAN FAYE University of Copenhagen, Denmark
PAUL NEEDHAM Stockholm University, Sweden
UWE SCHEFFLER Humboldt University Berlin, Germany and
MAX URCHS University of Konstanz, Germany
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 1-4020-3257-9 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-3258-7 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3257-8 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3258-5 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
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Cover image: Adaptation of a Persian astrolabe (brass, 1712-13), from the collection of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Reproduced by permission.
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