Why Are (Most) Laws of Nature Mathematical?.- How Nature Makes Sense.- Nancy Cartwright and Leszek Nowak on Scientific Laws and Scientific Explanation.- The Explanatory Virtues of Probabilistic Causal Laws.- The Nature of Natural Laws.- How the Ceteris Paribus Laws of Physics Lie.- Necessary Laws.- Laws of Nature — A Skeptical View.- The Laws’ Properties.- Laws of Nature Versus System Laws.- Psychologism, Universality and the Use of Logic.

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Aus den Rezensionen: "... In einer glanzenden ... Einleitung wird der historische, logische und philosophische Hintergrund der einzelnen Essays dargestellt. ... Wichtige Fragen werden ... von Ausnahmen und Randbedingungen aufgeworfen ... eine glanzende Bestatigung ..." (Rudiger Vaas, in: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau,2006, Vol. 59, Issue 10, S. 571 f.)

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