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The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

A Study of Theoretical Reason

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Igor Hanzel

    1. Comenius University, Slovak Republic

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 208)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Law of Appearance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Law of Appearance

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 3-13

    3. Popper’s Moa

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 14-30

  3. The Idealizational Law of Essence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. The Idealizational Law of Essence

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 33-51

    3. Ontological Foundations

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 52-59

  4. The Inherent Law of Essence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Inherent Law of Essence

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 63-84

    3. The Three Faces of Measure

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 85-107

    4. The Essential Formality

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 108-121

    5. The Inherent Law and Essentialism

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 122-133

    6. Substance-Subject

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 134-153

  5. The Epistemic Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Epistemology and Logic

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 157-174

    3. Hegel’s and Marx’s Categories: A Comparison

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 175-196

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Igor Hanzel
      Pages 197-200

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 201-230
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The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author provides the concept for the reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to the quality and quantity of its capacities. Finally, he provides concepts for scientific laws expressing how a certain cause, due to the quantity and quality of its capacities, generates the quantitative and qualitative determinations of its manifestations. The book is intended for philosophers of science and philosophers of social science, as well as for natural and social scientists.

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  • Comenius University, Slovak Republic

    Igor Hanzel

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