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Matter and Mathematics: An Essentialist Account of Laws of Nature

Matter and Mathematics: An Essentialist Account of Laws of Nature

Younan, Andrew
Dodds, Michael J.

Hardcover

PhilosophyCatholicismGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 0813236126
ISBN13: 9780813236124
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

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 their mathematical expression. It does this by arguing in favor of the Essentialist interpretation over that of the Humean and Anti-Humean accounts. It re-examines and critiques Descartes' notion of laws of nature following from God's activity in the world as mover of extended bodies, as well as Hume's arguments against causality and induction. It then presents an Aristotelian-Thomistic account of laws of nature based on mathematical abstraction, necessity, and teleology, finally offering a definition for laws of nature within this framework.

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