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Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature

Nancy Cartwright, Keith Ward

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Challenging classical concepts of natural order.

If you've ever found yourself questioning the rigid, traditional views of the laws of nature, "Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature" could fuel your curiosity further. It's not just about throwing away everything you thought you knew; it's a nuanced exploration of how order in our universe is more intricate and locally varied than one might assume. The authors guide you through a landscape where science meets philosophy, making you reconsider the very fabric of reality and our place within it.

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Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature

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ISBN: 9781350089891
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 2019-02-21
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Philosophy
Related Topics: Physics, Theory
Goodreads rating: 4.57
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This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world'. There is order in nature, but it is more local, diverse, piecemeal, open, and emergent than Newton imagined. In each chapter, expert authors expound the historical context of the idea of laws of nature and explore the diverse sorts of order actually presupposed by work in physics, biology, and the social sciences. They consider how human freedom might be understood and explore how Newton's idea of a 'universal designer' might be revised in this new context. They argue that there is not one unified totalizing program of science, aiming at the completion of one closed causal system. We live in an ordered universe, but we need to rethink the classical idea of the 'laws of nature' in a more dynamic and creatively diverse way.
 

Challenging classical concepts of natural order.

If you've ever found yourself questioning the rigid, traditional views of the laws of nature, "Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature" could fuel your curiosity further. It's not just about throwing away everything you thought you knew; it's a nuanced exploration of how order in our universe is more intricate and locally varied than one might assume. The authors guide you through a landscape where science meets philosophy, making you reconsider the very fabric of reality and our place within it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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