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Loew, Christian ORCID: 0000-0003-4051-2476 and Jaag, Siegfried (2020). HUMEAN LAWS AND (NESTED) COUNTERFACTUALS. Philos. Q., 70 (278). S. 93 - 114. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1467-9213

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Abstract

Humean reductionism about laws of nature is the view that the laws reduce to the total distribution of non-modal or categorical properties in spacetime. A worry about Humean reductionism is that it cannot motivate the characteristic modal resilience of laws under counterfactual suppositions and that it thus generates wrong verdicts about certain nested counterfactuals. In this paper, we defend Humean reductionism by motivating an account of the modal resilience of Humean laws that gets nested counterfactuals right.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Loew, Christian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4051-2476 UNSPECIFIED Jaag, Siegfried UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-350426
DOI:	10.1093/pq/pqz037
Journal or Publication Title:	Philos. Q.
Volume:	70
Number:	278
Page Range:	S. 93 - 114
Date:	2020
Publisher:	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1467-9213
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Philosophy Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/35042