Humeanism, Modality, and the Governing Conception of Natural Laws.

A common objection against Humean reductionism about laws is an argument from governing: It is natural to think that laws of nature govern. But in order to govern the laws need to be independent of the phenomena they govern. Hence, Humean laws, which reduce to patterns in the phenomena and so lack t...

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Published in:	Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 557 - 575
Main Authors:	Jaag, Siegfried, Loew, Christian
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2026
Subjects:	Physical laws Scientific models Reductionism Theory (Philosophy) Necessity (Philosophy) Philosophy of science
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