Nature's metaphysics : laws and properties /

Main Author: Bird, Alexander, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=215132
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505 0 |a 1 Introduction-laws and properties; 2 Dispositions; 3 Dispositional essentialism and the laws of nature; 4 Categoricalism; 5 Dispositional essentialism, modality, and intentionality; 6 The regress objection; 7 Structural properties; 8 The illusion of nomic contingency; 9 Are there any laws, and if so what are they?; 10 Concluding remarks; References; Index. 
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