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图书目录:PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER ONE / SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION I The Aims of Science II Ideals and Research CHAPTER TWO / LAWS, ACCIDENTAL GENERALITIES AND COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONALS I Introduction: Counterfactuals and the Humean Account of Laws II Accidental Generalities III Laws as Relations among Universals: A Recent Defence of Necessary Connections CHAPTER THREE / POSSIBLE WORLDS: A DEFENCE OF HUME I Introduction II The Possible Worlds Account of Counterfactuals III How Possible Are Possible Worlds? IV Nomic and Causal Dependence V Similarity among Possible Worlds VI Lewis' Regularity View of Laws VII Are There Counterfactual Conditionals that Involve No Laws? VIII The Case for Lewis' Analysis Examined (i) Semantics of Counterfactuals (ii) Causal Discourse (iii) Causal Pre-emption (iv) Which Belief-Contravening Assumptions Are Reasonable? (v) Counterfactuals and Inductive Support IX Conclusion NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF NAMES INDEX OF SUBJECTS |