Natural Laws in Scientific Practice

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Natural Laws in Scientific Practice is written by Marc Lange and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195351258 (ISBN 10) and 9780195351255 (ISBN 13).

It is often presumed that the laws of nature have special significance for scientific reasoning. But the laws' distinctive roles have proven notoriously difficult to identify--leading some philosophers to question if they hold such roles at all. This study offers original accounts of the roles that natural laws play in connection with counterfactual conditionals, inductive projections, and scientific explanations, and of what the laws must be in order for them to be capable of playing these roles. Particular attention is given to laws of special sciences, levels of scientific explanation, natural kinds, ceteris-paribus clauses, and physically necessary non-laws.