Twelve brand-new essays by an international team of leading philosophers examine central questions on the laws of nature, such as: what is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? And, are there exceptions to the laws of nature?
Walter Ott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (2017), Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (2009), and Lockes Philosophy of Language (2004). His work has appeared in such journals as Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Lydia Patton is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. She edited Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader (2014), and co-edited, with Benjamin Jantzen and Deborah Mayo, a special issue of Synthese on ontology and methodology. Her work has appeared in Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Kant-Studien, and Historia Mathematica, among others, and in The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. She is editor-in-chief of HOPOS.
Show moreTwelve brand-new essays by an international team of leading philosophers examine central questions on the laws of nature, such as: what is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? And, are there exceptions to the laws of nature?
Walter Ott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (2017), Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (2009), and Lockes Philosophy of Language (2004). His work has appeared in such journals as Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Lydia Patton is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. She edited Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader (2014), and co-edited, with Benjamin Jantzen and Deborah Mayo, a special issue of Synthese on ontology and methodology. Her work has appeared in Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Kant-Studien, and Historia Mathematica, among others, and in The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. She is editor-in-chief of HOPOS.
Show more1: Walter Ott and Lydia Patton: Intuitions and Assumptions in the
Debate over Laws of Nature
2: Helen Hattab: Early Modern Roots of the Philosophical Concept of
a Law of Nature
3: Mary Domski: Laws of Nature and the Divine Order of Things:
Descartes and Newton on Truth in Natural Philosophy
4: Walter Ott: Leges sive natura: Bacon, Spinoza, and a Forgotten
Concept of Law
5: Stathis Psillos: Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature
6: Angela Breitenbach: Laws and Ideal Unity
7: John W. Carroll: Becoming Humean
8: Michela Massimi: A Perspectivalist Better Best System Account of
Lawhood
9: James Woodward: Laws: An Invariance Based Account
10: Marc Lange: How the Explanations of Natural Laws Make Some
Reducible Physical Properties Natural and Explanatorily
Powerful
11: Stephen Mumford: Laws and their Exceptions
12: Nancy Cartwright and Pedro Merlussi: Are laws of nature
consistent with contingency?
Walter Ott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Virginia. He is the author of Descartes, Malebranche, and the
Crisis of Perception (2017), Causation and Laws of Nature in Early
Modern Philosophy (2009), and Lockes Philosophy of Language (2004).
His work has appeared in such journals as Archiv für Geschichte der
Philosophie and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Lydia
Patton is an Associate
Professor at Virginia Tech. She edited Philosophy, Science, and
History: A Guide and Reader (2014), and co-edited, with Benjamin
Jantzen and Deborah Mayo, a special issue of Synthese on ontology
and methodology. Her work has appeared in Synthese, Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science, Kant-Studien, and Historia
Mathematica, among others, and in The Oxford Handbook of German
Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. She is editor-in-chief of
HOPOS.
The book manifests a wide diversity of viewpoints and approaches.
The articles themselves are timely and of a consistently very high
quality, which speaks to the virtues of Ott and Patton's editorial
work, and the book can truly be said to have something for everyone
who is interested in laws of nature.
*Jason Winning, Metascience*
Ott and Patton ... have assembled a diverse group of scholars to
examine the origins and status of the modern scientific concept of
natural law ... clearly written ... Highly recommended.
*C. D. Kay, CHOICE*
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