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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 September 2009
      22 February 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511551611
      9780521390279
      9780521065665
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551611
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.657kg, 424 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 424 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    This book espouses a theory of scientific realism in which due weight is given to mathematics and logic. The authors argue that mathematics can be understood realistically if it is seen to be the study of universals, of properties and relations, of patterns and structures, the kinds of things which can be in several places at once. Taking this kind of scientific platonism as their point of departure, they show how the theory of universals can account for probability, laws of nature, causation and explanation, and explore the consequences in all these fields. This will be an important book for all philosophers of science, logicians and metaphysicians, and their graduate students. The readership will also include those outside philosophy interested in the interrelationship of philosophy and science.

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