Naturgesetze, Kausalität, Mechanismen (Proseminar SS 2011), Seminarplan
1. 18.4.
Einführung
2. 2.5.
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3. 9.5.
Lewis, D. (1994). Humean supervenience debugged. Mind 103, 473-490.
4. 16.5.
Salmon, W.C. (1980). Probabilistic causality. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61, 50-74. [Reprint in: Tooley, M. (ed.) (1999). Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience]
5. 23.5.
Cartwright, N. (1980). Do the laws of physics state the facts. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61, 75-84. [Reprint in: Carroll, J. (ed.) (2004). Readings on Laws of Nature]
6. 30.5.
Dretske, F. (1977). Laws of nature. Philosophy of Science 44, 248-268. [Reprint in: Carroll, J. (ed.) (2004). Readings on Laws of Nature]
7. 20.6.
Tooley, M. (1977). The nature of laws. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7, 667-698. [Reprint in: Carroll, J. (ed.) (2004). Readings on Laws of Nature]
8. 27.6.
van Fraassen, B. (1987). Armstrong on laws and probabilities. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 65, 243-259. [Reprint in: Carroll, J. (ed.) (2004). Readings on Laws of Nature]
9. 4.7.
Armstrong, D. (1983). What Is a Law of Nature?, Cambridge, 77-110.
Armstrong, D.M. (1988). Discussion: Reply to van Fraassen. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66, 224-229.
10. 11.7.
Machamer, P., Darden,L. & Craver,C,F. (2000). Thinking about mechanisms. Philosophy of Science 67, 1-25.
