Mohammadian, Mousa (2022) An Armstrongian Defense of Dispositional Monist Accounts of Laws of Nature. [Preprint]
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Bird reveals an important problem at the heart of Armstrong’s theory of laws of nature: to explain how a law necessitates its corresponding regularity, Armstrong is committed to a vicious regress. In his very brief response, Armstrong gestures towards an argument that, as he admits, is more of a “speculation.” Later, Barker and Smart argue that a very similar problem threatens Bird’s dispositional monist theory of laws of nature and he is committed to a similar vicious regress. In this paper, first, I construct Armstrong’s would-be argument in response to Bird. Second, I argue that his response makes his account of laws and natural properties incompatible with science. Finally, I argue that Armstrong’s strategy to address Bird’s criticism can be used, quite ironically, to defuse Barker and Smart’s argument against Bird.
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| Keywords: | laws of nature, categorical properties, dispositional properties, instantiation of properties, D. M. Armstrong, Alexander Bird | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Laws of Nature |
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| Depositing User: | Mousa Mohammadian | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2022 03:44 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2022 03:44 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21001 | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-0... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/s13194-022-00481-x | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Laws of Nature |
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| Date: | 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21001 |
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