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Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time
4:00 pm
Alison Fernandes: Three Accounts of Laws and Time
@ NYU Professional Studies, room 125
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Loewer distinguishes two approaches to laws and time: Humean accounts, which deny primitive modality and explain temporal asymmetries in scientific terms, and non-Humean accounts that take temporal asymmetry and modality to be metaphysically fundamental. I’ll argue that Loewer neglects an important third approach: deny metaphysical claims about fundamentality, and explain temporal asymmetries as well as the function of modal entities in scientific terms. This pragmatist approach provides a clear ontology to science, and, and unlike[...]
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