On some objections to the powers-BSA.
This paper responds to Friend's (2023) critique of the Powers-BSA , a view according to which laws of nature are efficient descriptions of how modally laden properties (powers) are possibly distributed in spacetime. In the course of this response, the paper discusses the nature of scientific and met...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 998 - 1007 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2024
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