Titlebook: Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology; Peter J. Riggs Book 1996 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996 David Hu

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On the Necessity of Natural Kinds,re not purely analytic. In this essay I will investigate why natural kinds are used in science and the extent to which science requires them. These issues revolve around the role of nomological necessity in science and the role of natural kinds in natural laws. I will give an account of nomological

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The Jerrybuilt House of Humeanism, metaphysical apparatus, ranging from supervenient relations, possible world accessibility relations, through to primitive causal powers that determine physical behaviour. The role of such metaphysical additions is to augment the ontology to yield a fully fledged metaphysics that can explain the nat

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Indifference and Induction,robabilities, construed as degrees of confidence. For example, knowing only that there is a bean in one of three boxes, but ignorant of any information as to which box it is in, the only reasonable distribution of degrees of confidence, is a uniform one of 1/3 to each possibility. It is the purpose

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,Elk Theories — A Galilean Strategy for Validating a New Scientific Discovery,onsiderable controversy ensued, by the summer of 1611 a consensus had emerged among the knowledgeable that the telescope was reliable (at least in this case) in the super-lunar realm and that the Jovian system was real. This is a remarkably fast closure of serious debate about a complex scientific i

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Of Crows and Quarks: Reflections on the Laws of Quantum Mechanics,various . about natural laws differ in the degree to which they respect that intuition about modality and in how they try to accommodate it. At some point however, and preferably sooner rather than later, such metaphysical theories must interact with our theories about the world, our science. A meta

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