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How to Breed Hybrid Accounts of Laws of Nature. Walter Ott (UVA)
@ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor,
How to Breed Hybrid Accounts of Laws of Nature. Walter Ott (UVA)
@ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor,
Dec 6 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Seen from a distance, competing views of laws of nature attend to different aspects of their target concept. The Best System Analysis (‘BSA’) focuses on the role of laws in systematizing our thoughts about particular facts, while non-Humean (‘realist’) views focus on whatever it is – N-relations among universals, powers – that pushes the universe from one state to another. Nothing stops us from combining these views: with the BSA, we can restrict the laws[...]
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