The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science
2000; Philosophy Documentation Center; Volume: 97; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2678412
ISSN1939-8549
AutoresEric Winsberg, Mathias Frisch, Karen Merikangas Darling, Arthur Fine, Nancy Cartwright,
Tópico(s)Economic Theory and Institutions
ResumoIntroduction Part I. Where Do Laws of Nature Come From?: 1. Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws 2. Fables and models 3. Nomological machines and the laws they produce Part II. Laws and their Limits: 4. Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method 5. Causal diversity, causal stability 6. Ceteris paribus laws and the socio-economic machines 7. Probability machines: chance set-ups and economic models Part III. The Boundaries of Quantum and Classical Physics and the Territories they Share: 8. How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory 9. How quantum and classical theories relate.
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