Most of the papers were presented at the 5th Baltic Workshop on Logic and the Philosophy of Science held at Copenhagen, May 24-27, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why are (most) laws of nature mathematical? / Mauro Dorato -- How nature makes sense / Jan Faye -- Cartwright and Nowack on laws and explanation / Igor Hanzel -- The explanatory virtues of probabilistic causal laws / Henrik Hållsten -- The nature of natural laws / Lars-Göran Johansson -- How the ceteris paribus laws of physics lie / Geert Keil -- Necessary laws / Max Kistler -- Laws of nature: a skeptical view / Uwe Meixner -- The laws' properties / Johannes Persson -- Laws of nature versus system laws / Gerhard Schurz -- Psychologism, universality and the use of logic / Werner Stelzner.
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Baltic Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Science(5th :2001 :, Copenhagen, Denmark)