Idealization and the Laws of Nature

• Main Author: Wheeler, Billy (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.

This new study provides a refreshing look at the issue of exceptions and shows that much of the problem stems from a failure to recognize at least two kinds of exception-ridden law: ceteris paribus laws and ideal laws. Billy Wheeler offers the first book-length discussion of ideal laws. The key diff...

Table of Contents:

• Ch 1. Laws of Nature and the Problem of Exceptions
• Ch 2. Governing Law Solutions to Ideal Laws
• Ch 3. Non-Governing Law Solutions to Ideal Laws
• Ch 4. The Algorithmic Theory of Laws
• Ch 5. Is the Universe Compressible?. .