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Matter and Mathematics

An Essentialist Account of Laws of Nature
  • By Andrew Younan
  • Foreword by Dodds Op Michael J.
$75.00
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To borrow a phrase from Galileo: What does it mean that the story of the creation is "written in the language of mathematics?" This book is an attempt to understand the natural world, its consistency, and the ontology of what we call laws of nature, with a special focus on their mathematical expression. It does this by arguing in favor of the Essentialist interpretation over that of the Humean and Anti-Humean accounts. It re-examines and critiques Descartes' notion of laws of nature following from God's activity in the world as mover of extended bodies, as well as Hume's arguments against causality and induction. It then presents an Aristotelian-Thomistic account of laws of nature based on mathematical abstraction, necessity, and teleology, finally offering a definition for laws of nature within this framework.

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    • SKU: 9780813236124
    • Manufacturer: Catholic Univ Of Amer Pr
    • ISBN 13: 9780813236124
    • Publication Date: 12/30/2022
    • Format: Hardcover
    • Author: Andrew Younan
    • Author: Dodds Op Michael J.

     
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