Are we free to make the laws?
Humeans about laws maintain that laws of nature are nothing over and above the complete distribution of non-modal, categorical properties in spacetime. ‘Humean compatibilists’ argue that if Humeanism about laws is true, then agents in a deterministic world can do otherwise than they are lawfully det...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2022
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