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  title info:
    title: Laws of Nature
  name:
    name part: Mittelstaedt, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Weingartner, Paul A.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 376 p. online resource.
  abstract: The book is concerned with the laws of nature and in particular with the laws of physics. The authors discuss three important questions: First, whether the observed regularities are based on strict "laws of nature" that hold rigorously and without any exception. Second, what we call a "law of nature" is studied by comparing this concept with invariance principles, causality principles, teleological principles and means of predicting future events. Finally, on the basis of these investigations the authors treat the ambitious and intricate third question, why the laws of nature hold. Are there rational reasons for this largely unexplained phenomenon? This book addresses students as well as researchers. It will be an excellent reference for those interested in the philosophical foundations of the natural sciences.
  table of contents: What is a Law of Nature? -- Are there Laws of Nature at All? -- Can the Laws of Nature be Genuine Laws? -- Are the Laws of Logic Laws of Nature? -- Are the Laws of Mathematics Laws of Nature? -- Properties of Laws -- Does Every Law of Nature Express an Invariance (Symmetry)? -- Is Every Law of Nature Spacetime Invariant? -- Dynamical and Statistical Laws -- Laws, Boundary Conditions, and Constants of Nature -- Causality and Predictability -- Laws and Objects -- Completeness and Reliability -- Why are Laws of Nature Valid? -- Statistical Laws -- Quantum Logic.
  note: by Peter Mittelstaedt, Paul A. Weingartner.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical logic
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Logic and Foundations
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540283034
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28303-X
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204185839.0
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