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Walter Ott
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Journal of Modern Philosophy, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2019)
Contemporary Humeans treat laws of nature as statements of exceptionless regularities that function as the axioms of the best deductive system. Such ‘Best System Accounts’ marry realism about laws with a denial of necessary connections among even
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Autor:
Walter Ott
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The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
This chapter explores the dominant version of the top-down picture: the universals theory, forged by D. M. Armstrong, Fred Dretske, and Michael Tooley. On this view, a law of nature states a necessitation or ‘N’ relation among universals. Like pr
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859235.003.0005
Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
The chapter looks at the origins of the anti-realist position in Hume and Mill. Both philosophers reject the need for any enforcer for the laws, simply because laws summarize events rather than governing them. Laws fit the world in the opposite direc
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859235.003.0011
Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
Occasionalism is the view that God is the only cause, at least of body-to-body events. Although it’s often regarded as an ad hoc solution to the problem of mind‒body interaction, occasionalism is instead the metaphysical support for the moderns
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859235.003.0003
Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
This chapter canvasses three anti-realist competitors to the best system analysis. First is conservative projectivism, which takes laws to be regularities, but lawhood to consist in our attitude toward those regularities. It suffers the same problems
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859235.003.0014
Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
This chapter covers the core arguments for the powers ontology. The first style of argument appeals to science. Some argue, for example, that, at the fundamental level, science discovers nothing but dispositional properties. The chapter argues that s
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Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
This chapter sets out and evaluates all the views so far considered, and adds some new ones: the hybrids. It may be attractive to combine a best system-style analysis of lawhood and a more robust realist metaphysics. After sorting the views along the
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859235.003.0015
Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
This chapter examines the origins of the powers view. Unlike the Cartesians, some of the moderns try to preserve the Aristotelian worldview. The chapter begins with Bacon and Spinoza, who, in their very different ways, both try to account for the beh
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859235.003.0007
Autor:
Walter Ott
That we live in a world governed by laws of nature can seem obvious. But it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle’s law
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Autor:
Walter Ott
Publikováno v:
The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature ISBN: 0192859234
This chapter sets out three axes along which views about the laws of nature can vary. First is the contrast between top-down views, which hold that laws govern events, and bottom-up views, which hold that events or powers fix or determine the laws. T
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