This is a study of a crucial and controversial topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of science: the status of the laws of nature. D.M. Armstrong works out clearly and in comprehensive detail a largely original view that laws are relations between properties or universals. The…
What is a law of nature?
by Armstrong, D.M., (David Malet)
fromCambridge studies in philosophy
What is a law of nature?
by Armstrong, D. M., (David Malet)
fromCambridge studies in philosophy
What is a law of nature?
by Armstrong, D. M., (David Malet)
fromCambridge studies in philosophy
What is a law of nature?
by Armstrong, D. M., (David Malet)
fromCambridge studies in philosophy
This book will be of broad interest to those working in legal and moral philosophy. It examines central puzzles in understanding the law of torts, including the role of responsibility and strict liability, the place of corrective justice in tort's moral foundations, and the role…
"Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Crito's position…