Lazarovici, Dustin (2020) Typical Humean worlds have no laws. [Preprint]
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The paper uses the concept of typicality to spell out an argument against Humean supervenience and the best system account of laws. It proves that, in a very general and robust sense, almost all possible Humean worlds have no Humean laws. They are worlds of irreducible complexity that do not allow for any systematization. After explaining typicality reasoning in general, the implications of this result for the metaphysics of laws are discussed in detail.
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| Keywords: | Humean Supervenience, Best System Account, Laws of Nature, Typicality | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Dustin Lazarovici | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2020 03:44 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2020 03:44 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 17469 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17469 |
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