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Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD) and Sheldon Goldstein (Rutgers), “Governing Without A Fundamental Direction of Time: Minimal Primitivism about Laws of Nature”
5:00 pm
Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD) and Sheldon Goldstein (Rutgers), “Governing Without A Fundamental Direction of Time: Minimal Primitivism about Laws of Nature”
@ ZOOM - see site for details
Oct 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Abstract: The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between Humeans who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter and non-Humeans who think that laws govern it. The metaphysics can place demands on the proper formulations of physical theories. It is sometimes assumed that the governing view requires a fundamental / intrinsic direction of time: to govern, laws must be dynamical, producing later states of the world from earlier ones,[...]
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