Loewer, Barry (2021) Are Humean Laws Flukes? [Preprint]

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It has been argued (by e.g. Galen Strawson and John Foster) contra Humean accounts of scientific laws that on Humean accounts laws are flukes since they are merely true generalizations and it would be an accident or a fluke for a generalization to obtain unless there was a non-Humean law "backing" it. This paper argues that this kind of objection is mistaken. It goes on to describe an account of laws called "the Package Deal Account" (PDA) that is a descendent of Lewis' BSA on which it is not an accident that our universe has a best systematization.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Loewer, Barry loewer@rutgers.edu
Keywords:	Humeanism, Laws, explanation
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Laws of Nature
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email loewer@rci.rutgers.edu
Date Deposited:	14 Apr 2021 02:37
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2021 02:37
Item ID:	18908
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Laws of Nature
Date:	13 April 2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18908

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