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Textbook in PDF format In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, the author argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe regularities that exist in nature. Cartwright draws from many real-life examples to propound a novel distinction: that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot. This book by Prof. Cartwright addresses a number of important topics in philosophy of science. She is especially concerned with the quantum theory of light as it pertains to the laser, and a great deal of attention is paid to this topic in the latter part of the book. I think that she is expressing a deep frustration with physics, particularly quantum mechanics, in terms of how indirect the abstract theory has become relative to the phenomena that physics pertains to. The "laws" seem to, at best, only provide a general framework for abstract models, that can require much in the way of approximation, and additional assumptions to put one in a position to describe, to make predictions about, to even approach the complex technology that often surrounds actual work in experimental physics. The author -- a trained mathematical physicist -- isn't saying physics equations aren't "useful." She argues that they're generally not "true" in the ordinary sense that "grass is green" is true. Indeed, the "law of gravity" is a great example: No two bodies REALLY interact SOLELY in accordance with the "law of gravity" in the real world. Causal Laws and Effective Strategies The Truth Doesn’t Explain Much Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts? The Reality of Causes in a World of Instrumental Laws When Explanation Leads to Inference For Phenomenological Laws Fitting Facts to Equations The Simulacrum Account of Explanation How the Measurement Problem is an Artefact of the Mathematics

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