Humeans are out of this world.
I defend the following argument in this paper. Premise 1: Laws of nature are intrinsic to the universe. Premise 2: Humeanism maintains that laws of nature are extrinsic to the universe. Conclusion: Humeanism is false. This argument is inspired by Hawthorne's (Noûs 38(2):351–358, 2004) argument in "H...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 6; pp. 5897 - 5917 |
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