國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Laws and explanationstheories and mo...

Koslow, Arnold.

Laws and explanationstheories and modal possibilities /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Laws and explanationsby Arnold Koslow.
Reminder of title:	theories and modal possibilities /
Author:	Koslow, Arnold.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	ix, 185 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	SciencePhilosophy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18846-7
ISBN:	9783030188467$q(electronic bk.)

Laws and explanationstheories and modal possibilities /
Koslow, Arnold.

Laws and explanationstheories and modal possibilities /[electronic resource] :by Arnold Koslow. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - ix, 185 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Synthese library ;v.410. - Synthese library ;v.344..

The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG) Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a contingent generalization shows that the generalization is not accidental. The second part involves physical theories, their modality, and their explanatory power. In particular, it is shown that (1) Each theory has a theoretical implication structure associated with it, such that there are new physical modal operators on these structures and also special modal entities that are in these structures. A special subset of the physical modals, the nomic modals are associated with the laws of theories. (2) The familiar idea that theories always explain laws by deduction of them has to be seriously modified in light of the fact that there are a host of physical theories (including for example, Newtonian Classical mechanics, Hamiltonian, and Lagrangian theory, and probability theory) that we believe are schematic (they do not have any truth value) Nevertheless, we think that there is a kind of non-deductive explanation and generality that they achieve by subsumtion under a schema.

ISBN: 9783030188467$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-18846-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

179415
Science
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: Q175 / .K67 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 501

Laws and explanationstheories and modal possibilities /
LDR:02264nmm a2200325 a 4500 001 570433
003 DE-He213
005 20200101102712.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 200819s2019 gw s 0 eng d
020 $a 9783030188467$q(electronic bk.)
020 $a 9783030188450$q(paper)
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-030-18846-7 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-030-18846-7
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a Q175 $b .K67 2019
072 7 $a PDA $2 bicssc
072 7 $a SCI075000 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a PDA $2 thema
082 0 4 $a 501 $2 23
090 $a Q175 $b .K86 2019
100 1 $a Koslow, Arnold. $3 711452
245 1 0 $a Laws and explanations $h [electronic resource] : $b theories and modal possibilities / $c by Arnold Koslow.
260 $a Cham : $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Springer, $c 2019.
300 $a ix, 185 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
490 1 $a Synthese library ; $v v.410
520 $a The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG) Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a contingent generalization shows that the generalization is not accidental. The second part involves physical theories, their modality, and their explanatory power. In particular, it is shown that (1) Each theory has a theoretical implication structure associated with it, such that there are new physical modal operators on these structures and also special modal entities that are in these structures. A special subset of the physical modals, the nomic modals are associated with the laws of theories. (2) The familiar idea that theories always explain laws by deduction of them has to be seriously modified in light of the fact that there are a host of physical theories (including for example, Newtonian Classical mechanics, Hamiltonian, and Lagrangian theory, and probability theory) that we believe are schematic (they do not have any truth value) Nevertheless, we think that there is a kind of non-deductive explanation and generality that they achieve by subsumtion under a schema.
650 0 $a Science $x Philosophy. $3 179415
650 1 4 $a Philosophy of Science. $3 277156
650 2 4 $a History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. $3 376851
650 2 4 $a Mathematical Logic and Foundations. $3 274479
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 273601
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
830 0 $a Synthese library ; $v v.344. $3 593365
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18846-7
950 $a Religion and Philosophy (Springer-41175)