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Rethinking order after the laws of nature 1st Edition by Nancy Cartwright, Keith Ward ISBN 9781474244053 147424405X

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Author(s): Cartwright, Nancy;Ward, Keith

ISBN(s): 9781350089891, 9781474244053, 9781474244060, 9781474244084, 1350089893, 147424405X, 1474244068, 1474244084

Edition: Paperback edition

File Details: PDF, 1.50 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-11778976 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology, Society Tags: Cartwright, Keith, Nancy, Ward

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Author: Nancy Cartwright, Keith Ward

This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a ‘dappled world’. There is order in nature, but it is more local, diverse, piecemeal, open, and emergent than Newton imagined. In each chapter expert authors expound the historical context of the idea of laws of nature, and explore the diverse sorts of order actually presupposed by work in physics, biology, and the social sciences. They consider how human freedom might be understood, and explore how Newton’s idea of a ‘universal designer’ might be revised, in this new context. They argue that there is not one unified totalizing program of science, aiming at the completion of one closed causal system. We live in an ordered universe, but we need to rethink the classical idea of the ‘laws of nature’ in a more dynamic and creatively diverse way.

Rethinking order after the laws of nature 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 The Historical and Philosophical Setting

1 The Rise and Fall of Laws of Nature Eric Watkins

2 The Dethronement of Laws in Science Nancy Cartwright

Part 2 New Modes of Order in the Natural and Social Sciences

3 From Order to Chaos and Back Again Robert C. Bishop and Roman Frigg

4 Multiple Orders in Biology Eric Martin and William Bechtel

5 Realism, Pluralism and Naturalism in Biology John Dupré

6 The Making and Maintenance of Social Order Eleonora Montuschi and Rom Harré

Part 3 Free Will after the Laws of Nature

7 Freedom and the Causal Order T. J. Mawson

8 From Laws to Powers Steven Horst