How the Laws of Physics Lie

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Nancy Cartwright

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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.

Release date NZ

June 9th, 1983

Author

Nancy Cartwright

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

text-figures, line drawings

Pages

230

Dimensions

137x217x20

ISBN-13

9780198247043

Product ID

2009642

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