Typicality and minutis rectis laws: from physics to sociology
- This paper contributes to the clarification of the concept of “typicality” discussed in contemporary philosophy of physics by conceiving the nomological status of a typical behaviour such as that expressed in the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a “minutis rectis law”. A brief sketch of the discovery of “typicality” shows that there were ideas of typical behaviour not only in physics but also in sociology. On this basis and in analogy to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is shown that the nomological status of sociological laws such as Gresham’s Law can also be conceived as “minutis rectis laws”.
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| Author: | Gerhard WagnerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-637573 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-020-09505-7 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8587 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal for general philosophy of science |
| Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/04/24 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/04/24 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/10/20 |
| Tag: | Ceteris paribus laws; Ludwig Boltzmann; Max Weber; Minutis rectis laws; Physics; Second Law of Thermodynamics; Sociology; Typicality |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 12 |
| First Page: | 447 |
| Last Page: | 458 |
| Note: | Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 501829008 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
