Laws and Symmetry

ISBN: 9780198248606 出版年：2003 页码：412 van Fraassen Bas C Clarendon Press

This is a book in the philosophy of science, which examines the concept of laws of nature. The author analyses and rejects arguments for the existence of such laws, and argues that there is no point in us believing that they exist. This has important implications for scientists, since he rejects the idea of law as an inadequate clue to science. In the second part of the book he develops a philosophical approach to science which takes account of these objections.