دانلود کتاب Laws and symmetry

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Introduction Part I: Are there laws of nature?
What are the laws of nature?
Ideal science: David Lewis\'s account of laws
Necessity, worlds, and chance
Universals: Laws grounded in nature
Part II: Belief as rational but lawless: Inference to the best explanation: Salvation by Laws?
Towards a new epistemology
What if there are no laws? A manifesto
Part III: Symmetry as guide to theory: Introduction to the Semantic approach
Symmetry arguments inscience and metaphysics
Symmetries guiding modern science
Part IV: Symmetry and the illusion of logical probability: Indifference: The symmetries of probability
Symmetries of probability kinematics
Notes
Bibliography
Index