How the Laws of Physics Lie

Name: How the Laws of Physics Lie
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ISBN: 9780198247043

ISBN-10: 0198247044

ISBN-13: 9780198247043

Edition: 1983

Authors: 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.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Causal Laws and Effective Strategies



The Truth Doesn't Explain Much



Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?



The Reality of Causes In a World of Instrumental Laws



When Explanation Leads to Inference



For Phenomenological Laws



Fitting Facts to Equations



The Simulacrum Account of Explanation



How the Measurement Problem Is an Artefact of the Mathematics


Appendix; an Experiment to Test Reduction of the Wave Packet


Author Index


Subject Index