Humean Laws and (Nested) Counterfactuals.
Humean reductionism about laws of nature is the view that the laws reduce to the total distribution of non-modal or categorical properties in spacetime. A worry about Humean reductionism is that it cannot motivate the characteristic modal resilience of laws under counterfactual suppositions and that...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 70; no. 278; pp. 93 - 114 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2020
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