Nancy Cartwright Quote

Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.


How the Laws of Physics Lie, Essay 4 (p. 86), Clarendon Press. 1983


Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.

Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.

Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.

Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.