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- Preface
- Chapter 1: Laws Form Counterfactually Stable Sets
- 1: Welcome
- 2: Their necessity sets the laws apart
- 3: The laws's persistence under counterfactuals
- 4: Nomic preservation
- 5: Beyond nomic preservation
- 6: A host of related problems: triviality, circularity, arbitrariness
- 7: Sub-nomic stability
- 8: No nonmaximal set containing accidents possesses sub-nomic stability
- 9: How two sub-nomically stable sets must be related: multiple strata of natural laws
- 10: Why the laws would still have been laws
- 11: Conclusion: laws form stable sets
- Chapter 2: Natural Necessity
- 1: Our goal in this chapter
- 2: The Euthyphro question
- 3: David Lewis's "Best-System Account"
- 4: Lewis's account and the laws's supervenience
- 5: The Euthyphro question returns
- 6: Are all relative necessities created equal?
- 7: The modality principle
- 8: A proposal for distinguishing genuine from merely relative modalities
- 9: Borrowing a strategy from Chapter 1
- 10: Necessity as maximal invariance
- 11: The laws form a system
- 12: Scientific essentialism squashes the pyramid
- 13: Why there is a natural ordering of the genuine modalities
- 14: Conclusion: stability, as maximal invariance, involves necessity
- Chapter 4: A World of Subjunctives
- 1: What if the lawmakers were subjunctive facts?
- 2: The lawmakers's regress
- 3: Stability
- 4: Avoiding adhocery
- 5: nstantaneous rates of change and the causal explanation problem
- 6: Et in Arcadia ego
- 7: The rule of law
- 8: Why the laws must be complete
- 9: Envoi: Am I cheating?
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
| Jahrhundert: | Antike |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780195328141 |
| ISBN-10: | 0195328140 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Lange, Marc |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Marc Lange |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,393 kg |
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Laws Form Counterfactually Stable Sets
- 1: Welcome
- 2: Their necessity sets the laws apart
- 3: The laws's persistence under counterfactuals
- 4: Nomic preservation
- 5: Beyond nomic preservation
- 6: A host of related problems: triviality, circularity, arbitrariness
- 7: Sub-nomic stability
- 8: No nonmaximal set containing accidents possesses sub-nomic stability
- 9: How two sub-nomically stable sets must be related: multiple strata of natural laws
- 10: Why the laws would still have been laws
- 11: Conclusion: laws form stable sets
- Chapter 2: Natural Necessity
- 1: Our goal in this chapter
- 2: The Euthyphro question
- 3: David Lewis's "Best-System Account"
- 4: Lewis's account and the laws's supervenience
- 5: The Euthyphro question returns
- 6: Are all relative necessities created equal?
- 7: The modality principle
- 8: A proposal for distinguishing genuine from merely relative modalities
- 9: Borrowing a strategy from Chapter 1
- 10: Necessity as maximal invariance
- 11: The laws form a system
- 12: Scientific essentialism squashes the pyramid
- 13: Why there is a natural ordering of the genuine modalities
- 14: Conclusion: stability, as maximal invariance, involves necessity
- Chapter 4: A World of Subjunctives
- 1: What if the lawmakers were subjunctive facts?
- 2: The lawmakers's regress
- 3: Stability
- 4: Avoiding adhocery
- 5: nstantaneous rates of change and the causal explanation problem
- 6: Et in Arcadia ego
- 7: The rule of law
- 8: Why the laws must be complete
- 9: Envoi: Am I cheating?
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
| Jahrhundert: | Antike |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780195328141 |
| ISBN-10: | 0195328140 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Lange, Marc |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Marc Lange |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,393 kg |
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