Review of Alexander Bird, Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6) (2008)
| Abstract | This is a rewarding book. In terms of area, it has one foot firmly planted in metaphysics and the other just as firmly set in the philosophy of science. Nature's Metaphysics is distinctive for its thorough and detailed defense of fundamental, natural properties as essentially dispositional and for its description of how these dispositional properties are thus suited to sustain the laws of nature as (metaphysically) necessary truths. | |||||||||
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