Nature's Metaphysics —— Laws and Properties

----- 自然的思辨哲学：法则与特性

ISBN: 9780199573110 出版年：2007 页码：246 Bird, Alexander Oxford University Press

Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird develops a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature, defending the claim that laws are metaphysically necessary.