Laws and symmetry

Bas C. van Fraassen

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Introduction Part I: Are there laws of nature? What are the laws of nature? Ideal science: David Lewis's account of laws Necessity, worlds, and chance Universals: Laws grounded in nature Part II: Belief as rational but lawless: Inference to the best explanation: Salvation by Laws? Towards a new epistemology What if there are no laws? A manifesto Part III: Symmetry as guide to theory: Introduction to the Semantic approach Symmetry arguments in science and metaphysics Symmetries guiding modern science Part IV: Symmetry and the illusion of logical probability: Indifference: The symmetries of probability Symmetries of probability kinematics Notes Bibliography Index

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