Andersen, Holly (2023) Every View is a View From Somewhere: Pragmatist Laws and Possibility. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Humean accounts of laws are often contrasted with governing accounts, and recent developments have added pragmatic versions of Humeanism. This paper offers Mitchell's pragmatist, perspectival account of laws as a third option. The differences between these accounts come down to the role of modality. Mitchell's bottom-up account allows for subtle gradations of modal content to be conveyed by laws. The perspectival character of laws is not an accident or something to be eventually eliminated - it is part of how this modal content is conveyed. I conclude with a discussion of the metaphysical commitments in Humeanism as requiring a perspectiveless view of the manifold from outside, and how Mitchell's situated account is better able to account for the substantive notion of possibility involved in scientific laws.
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Keywords: | pragmatism, Humeanism, laws, perspectivism, modality | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Laws of Nature |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Holly Andersen | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2023 11:28 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2023 11:28 | ||||||
Item ID: | 22563 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Laws of Nature |
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Date: | 2023 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22563 |
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