자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017164327

International Standard Book Number  

9798346376774

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

519

Main Entry-Personal Name  

McKenna, Travis.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of Pittsburgh., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

100 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Wilson, Mark;Batterman, Robert.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약What role do laws of nature play in the process of scientific inquiry? In answering this question, philosophers have tended to focus on a handful of predictive and explanatory roles with which laws have been traditionally associated. I argue that this traditional focus overlooks an important fact about scientific practice: before they can be of any predictive or explanatory use, laws must often be supplemented by a wide variety of modelling ingredients, such as material parameters, boundary conditions, auxiliary models, and so on - what I call their supporting casts. As a result, many accounts of laws have trouble conferring lawhood on the kinds of generalisations and principles worth calling laws without also conferring it on those features that play a merely supporting role. I argue that the key to avoiding this problem lies in recognising the important role that laws play in helping us to coordinate the various different kinds of information we must make use of in our attempts to model some system and thus explain or predict its behaviour. In addition to contributing to a more complete philosophical picture of scientific methodology surrounding laws, my account of this coordinating role also helps us to identify several distinctexplanatory and predictive roles that laws play in scientific practice.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Applied mathematics.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Viscosity.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Metaphysics.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Navier-Stokes equations.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Boundary conditions.

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Philosophy.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Philosophers.

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

University of Pittsburgh.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05B.

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