HUMEAN LAWS AND (NESTED) COUNTERFACTUALS

被引：8

作者：

Loew, Christian ^{[1
]}

Jaag, Siegfried ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Cologne, Cologne, Germany

[2] Univ Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

来源：

PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY | 2020年 / 70卷 / 278期

关键词：

laws of nature; best systems account; Humeanism; counterfactuals;

D O I：

10.1093/pq/pqz037

中图分类号：

B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ;

摘要：

Humean reductionism about laws of nature is the view that the laws reduce to the total distribution of non-modal or categorical properties in spacetime. A worry about Humean reductionism is that it cannot motivate the characteristic modal resilience of laws under counterfactual suppositions and that it thus generates wrong verdicts about certain nested counterfactuals. In this paper, we defend Humean reductionism by motivating an account of the modal resilience of Humean laws that gets nested counterfactuals right.

引用

页码：93 / 113

页数：21

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