Scientific laws at Nancy Cartwright

Document Type : Academic research papers

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1 Egypt ,Facaulty Of Women ,Ain Shams Universty.

2 Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Department of philosophy-Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education Ain Shams University - Egypt

3 Professor of Philosophy of Science Girls College For Arts, Science & Education Ain Shams University

Abstract

This research presents a new conception of the laws of nature according to the philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, who looked at the laws in a special and different way. However, it is limited in its scope of application. Cartwright presents us with a new vision of the world that she calls "the dappled world", which is a world full of different things of diverse natures. This world consists of a multiplicity of different laws, which govern a few phenomena and not all phenomena. This view of the world is opposed to the " fundamentalism view" of the world, which holds that the laws of physics govern all phenomena that occur in the universe, everything that happens is directed only by fundamental Laws of Physics, and thus all events in the universe can be predicted and understood, Cartwright's attack on Fundamentalism and its belief in the dappled world was based on the study of two sciences, physics and economics, where she found that each of them seeks to account for almost everything, whether in the natural world or in the social world, and the reason may be due to their desire for laws to calculate everything and govern All events to their view of the world that it is well-organized and that the sciences are arranged in a hierarchical structure until we reach physics at the top of the pyramid.

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Buhūth
Volume 3, Issue 9 - Serial Number 9
Social sciences & Humanities
September 2023
Pages 192-215

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