What Humeans should say about tied best systems

Autor:	Christian Loew, Siegfried Jaag
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Filosofi Philosophy Natural law 060302 philosophy 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0509 other social sciences 050905 science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Epistemology
Zdroj:	Analysis. 80:273-282
ISSN:	1467-8284 0003-2638
DOI:	10.1093/analys/anz047
Popis:	The Humean best systems account (BSA) identifies laws of nature with the regularities in a system of truths that, as a whole, best conforms to scientific standards for theory-choice. A principled problem for the BSA is that it returns the wrong verdicts about laws in cases where multiple systems, containing different regularities, satisfy these standards equally well. This problem affects every version of the BSA because it arises regardless of which standards for theory-choice Humeans adopt. In this paper, we propose a Humean response to the problem. We invoke pragmatic aspects of Humean laws to show that the BSA, despite violating some of our intuitive judgements, can capture everything that is relevant for scientific practice.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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