How the Laws of Physics Lie

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.

Author: Nancy Cartwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/07/1983
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.52w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780198247043
ISBN10: 0198247044
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | General
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects

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