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2012
The discovery of the laws of nature has long been considered a principal aim of science. Of course, many laws that science discovers are not commonly designated “laws.” Alongside Boyle’s law, the law of universal gravitation, and the law of supply and demand, there are Archimedes’ principle, Maxwell’s equations, and the formulas of stoichiometry ...
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The discovery of the laws of nature has long been considered a principal aim of science. Of course, many laws that science discovers are not commonly designated “laws.” Alongside Boyle’s law, the law of universal gravitation, and the law of supply and demand, there are Archimedes’ principle, Maxwell’s equations, and the formulas of stoichiometry ...
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1994
John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that emperically pure matters of fact need not even determine what the laws are.
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John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that emperically pure matters of fact need not even determine what the laws are.
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Philosophy of Science, 1977
It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise.
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It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise.
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2015
Hobbes distinguishes rational theorems from proper laws, yet both are constituted of the same precepts. The distinction cannot be merely epistemological, explaining the justification of the precepts from two standpoints. A thorough normative analysis reveals that the rational theorems have a conditional form and constitute what Hobbes calls counsel ...
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Hobbes distinguishes rational theorems from proper laws, yet both are constituted of the same precepts. The distinction cannot be merely epistemological, explaining the justification of the precepts from two standpoints. A thorough normative analysis reveals that the rational theorems have a conditional form and constitute what Hobbes calls counsel ...
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Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights. By Francis Oakley
The Heythrop Journal, 2007openaire +1 more source