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Hardback. New. What is "A Law of Nature"? It's a question that's vexed philosophers and scientists ever since Descartes first coined the term. Fr. Andrew Younan explores it in this insightful book. After carefully reviewing the positions of Humeans and Anti-Humeans, he employs the philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas to argue for an essentialist understanding. His study leads him back to the beginnings of modern science and then forward to quantum mechanics. The philosophical account of how the laws of nature arise from observed regularities in the world is followed by a theological discussion of the nature and action of the Lawgiver."-from the foreword by Michael J. Dodds, OP To borrow a phrase from Galileo: What does it mean that the story of the creation is "written in the language of mathematics?" This book is an attempt to understand the natural world, its consistency, and the ontology of what we call laws of nature, with a special focus on…
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by Andrew Younan; Foreword by Michael J. Dodds
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- Title Matter and Mathematics: An Essentialist Account of Laws of Nature
- Author Andrew Younan; Foreword by Michael J. Dodds
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Catholic University of America Press
- Date 2022-12-30
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780813236124 / 0813236126
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.82 x 5.83 x 0.87 in (22.40 x 14.81 x 2.21 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Nature, Essentialism (Philosophy)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022048622
- Dewey Decimal Code 501
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