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▼a Maxwell, Mark Gerald. |
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▼a Laws of Nature as Identities of Facts. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b Yale University.,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a 148 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Michael Della Rocca. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2018. |
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▼a I introduce a view of laws of nature on which laws are to be understood in terms of identities of fact. If it is a law of nature that the phenomena X and Y always appear together, then we can consider the possibility that the reason they always |
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▼a In order to understand how these seemingly disparate facts can be "identical", I introduce the "bare facts". These are what we might ordinarily call the facts, but stripped of their ontological commitments. Setting aside ontological commitments |
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▼a Chapter 1 is a direct investigation of laws of nature, showing how to productively violate the presupposed ontology by means of an identity of facts. I start with a historical example, where understanding an empirical regularity as an identity c |
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▼a Chapter 2 deals with what looks like a major counterintuitive implication of Chapter 1. Not only do I suggest that synchronic laws of nature can be explained as identities, but also that diachronic laws can be explained as identities. But then t |
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▼a Taking a view of laws that allows for (or demands) conceptual change will lead to different perspectives on other aspects of science as well. Chapter 3 dips into epistemology, contemplating an application to the problem of induction. Using the s |
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▼a Chapter 4 steps back to consider what it is for facts to be identical, beginning the project of establishing the "bare facts" as a metaphysical underpinning for the conceptual freedom that we have exploited in chapters 1, 2, and 3. To that end, |
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▼a School code: 0265. |
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▼a Philosophy of science. |
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▼a Metaphysics. |
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▼a Yale University. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 79-11A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T15000838
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▼a 201812
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