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The Laws' Properties

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Jan Faye
  • Uwe Scheffler
  • Max Urchs

Summary, in English

We are good at discussing law statements of different epistemic status, and to describe logical relationships between different law statements. But contemporary discussion often suffers from a difficulty to formulate questions concerning laws of different ontological status. This paper presents a framework for distinguishing between properties and fake properties that seems to provide better tools for such inquiries. This paper also examines criteria for properties in connection with laws of nature. It discusses three suggested tests for properties, by Maxwell, Ramsey, and Cartwright. None of these tests is good as it stands. Rather than favouring one particular test, we should opt for methodologically stable decisions, i.e. decisions where several tests come to the same conclusion.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

239-254

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Nature's principles

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Philosophy

Nyckelord

  • mechanism
  • Cartwright
  • universal
  • trope
  • Laws of nature

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 1-4020-3257-9