TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis, Brian
TI  - Scientific essentialism
T2  - Cambridge studies in philosophy
SN  - 9780521037747
U1  - 149 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge university press
KW  - Essence - Philosophy
KW  - Science - Philosophy
N1  - Part I. Concepts: 1. Concepts of scientific essentialism; Part II. Ontology: 2. Natural kinds; 3. Powers and dispositions; Part III. Scientific Explanation: 4. Realism and essentialism in science; 5. Essentialism in the social sciences; Part IV. Laws of Nature: 6. Theories of laws of nature; 7. Natural necessity; Part V. The New Essentialism: 8. The essentialist program
N2  - Ellis defends the idea that the fundamental laws of nature are grounded in the essential properties of the things they govern. He argues that our world is dynamic, made up of transient objects that are in constant interaction with one another
ER  -