NDLI: The Third Dogma Revisited

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Author	Ylikoski, Petri
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	This paper is an attempt to further our understanding of mechanisms conceived of as ontologically separable from laws. What opportunities are there for a mechanistic perspective to be independent of, or even more fundamental than, a law perspective? Advocates of the mechanistic view often play with the possibility of internal and external reliability, or with the paralleling possibilities of enforcing, counteracting, redirecting, etc., the mechanisms’ power to produce To further this discussion I adopt a trope ontology. It is independent of the notion of law, and can easily be adapted to account for such characteristics of mechanisms. The idea of tropes as mechanisms is worked out in some detail. According to the resulting picture, there is still an opportunity to link mechanisms and laws. But while the predominant law view conceives of mechanistic approaches as special kinds of law accounts, this study indicates that the converse may be true. Law accounts are special cases of mechanistic accounts, and they work only in those worlds where the mechanisms are of the right kind
Starting Page	395
Ending Page	419
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12331821
Journal	Foundations of Science
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728471
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	covering laws deductivism explanation Wesley Salmon Philosophy of Science Mathematical Logic and Foundations Methodology of the Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History and Philosophy of Science

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