How (not) to be a pragmatic Humean.

Recently, philosophers have argued that the laws of Lewis’s Best System Analysis (BSA) are not pragmatically useful. In this paper, I argue that these criticisms are substantive only because the BSA laws are characterized independently of their pragmatic roles. It is important to maintain the distin...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 205; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16
Main Author: Demarest, Heather
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2025
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