How the Laws of Physics Lie (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198247043)

In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.

Author: Nancy Cartwright
ISBN-10: 0198247044
ISBN-13: 9780198247043
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/07/1983
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.52w x 0.61d