Sartenaer, Olivier (2019). Humeanism, Best System Laws, and Emergence. Philos. Sci., 86 (4). S. 719 - 739. CHICAGO: UNIV CHICAGO PRESS. ISSN 1539-767X
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In the current article and contrary to a widespread assumption, I argue that Humeanism and ontological emergence can peacefully coexist. Such a coexistence can be established by reviving elements of John Stuart Mill's philosophy of science, in which an idiosyncratic account of diachronic emergence is associated with extensions of the Humean mosaic and the correlative coming into being of new best system laws, which have the peculiarity of being temporally indexed. Incidentally, this reconciliation of Humeanism and emergence allows for conceiving the autonomy of the special sciences in an interesting way, consistently with the reductionist ideal of a unified science.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-133289 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1086/704979 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philos. Sci. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 86 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 719 - 739 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | UNIV CHICAGO PRESS | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | CHICAGO | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1539-767X | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13328 |
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