What Is a Law of Nature?

by D.M. Armstrong

Book Overview

First published in 1985, D. M. Armstrong's original work on what laws of nature are has continued to be influential in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Presenting a definitive attack on the sceptical Humean view, that laws are no more than a regularity of coincidence between stances of properties, Armstrong establishes his own theory and defends it concisely and systematically against objections. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316507092
• ISBN13: 9781316507094
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"