Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Nature of metaphysics and science, metaphysical foundations of science.
- Realism and Anti-realism debates in philosophy of science, varieties of realism and anti-realism.
- Laws and the nature of causation, causal processes, models of laws of nature and its critiques.
- Concepts of scientific essentialism, natural kinds and dispositions, natural kinds in the physical and the biological sciences.
- Essential ideas of naturalized metaphysics.
- A. Chakravartty, A metaphysics for scientific realism: knowing the unobservable, Cambridge University Press (2007).
- C. Dilworth, The metaphysics of science, Springer (2007).
- B. Ellis, Scientific essentialism, Cambridge University Press (2007).
- J. Ladyman and D. Ross,Everything must go: Metaphysics Naturalized, Oxford University Press (2007).
- J. LaPorte, Natural kinds and conceptual change, Cambridge University Press (2004).
- E. J. Lowe, Four category ontology- A metaphysical foundation for natural science, Oxford University Press (2006).
- S. Psillos, Scientific realism: how science tracks truth, Routledge (2005).
