Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities

• Main Author: Koslow, Arnold (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 410
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Mathematical logic.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

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 conting...