What motivates humeanism?
The 'great divide' in the metaphysics of science is between Humean approaches—which reduce scientific laws (and related modalities) to patterns of occurrent facts—and anti-Humean approaches—where laws stand apart from the patterns of events, making those events hold. There is a vast literature on th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 181; no. 11; pp. 2935 - 2954 |
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