id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7vre6rhalncgfekzl4abpp2vrq Feng Ye BOOK REVIEWS 2008 11 .pdf application/pdf 5566 503 56 truth relation with any physical states outside the brain, we will naturally study their do bear the truth relation with physical states outside the brain. Mauro Dorato's monograph presents a theoretical account of scientific laws that is Dorato places the marginal debate about laws of nature at centre stage in philosophy Alternatively, laws of nature describe a central and irreducible ontological factor, the notion of causal power (disposition). Chapter 1 attempts a chronological account of the concept of laws of nature, charting its development from the Hellenistic age through the medieval age to the end of the argues for a dispositional view of laws, where causal powers are real essential properties manifestation of dispositions described by scientific laws involves relations (causal and properties of the whole will eventually be completely understood in terms of the properties of the parts, while according to the former, the whole is a distinct level of organization characterized by new, emergent, properties. ./cache/work_7vre6rhalncgfekzl4abpp2vrq.pdf ./txt/work_7vre6rhalncgfekzl4abpp2vrq.txt