How the Laws of Physics Lie Paperback / softback
by Nancy (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics) Cartwright
Paperback / softback
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In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature.
Yet she is not `anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:230 pages, text-figures, line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/1983
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- ISBN:9780198247043
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:230 pages, text-figures, line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/1983
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198247043