Tuesday, 11 October 2005
Scientific Explanation and Laws of Nature
Wang Wei, Tsinghua, U. of China
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

Abstract: I believe the study of relationship between laws of nature and scientific explanation would be promising in solving some problems of traditional scientific explanation models and in deepening our understanding of laws of nature. I try to find similarities between the epistemic conception of explanation and the regularity theory of laws, between the modal conception and the necessitarian approach.