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Loew, Christian ORCID: 0000-0003-4051-2476 and Jaag, Siegfried (2020). What Humeans should say about tied best systems. Analysis, 80 (2). S. 273 - 283. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1467-8284

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Abstract

The Humean best systems account (BSA) identifies laws of nature with the regularities in a system of truths that, as a whole, best conforms to scientific standards for theory-choice. A principled problem for the BSA is that it returns the wrong verdicts about laws in cases where multiple systems, containing different regularities, satisfy these standards equally well. This problem affects every version of the BSA because it arises regardless of which standards for theory-choice Humeans adopt. In this paper, we propose a Humean response to the problem. We invoke pragmatic aspects of Humean laws to show that the BSA, despite violating some of our intuitive judgements, can capture everything that is relevant for scientific practice.

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:38-337854
DOI:	10.1093/analys/anz047
Journal or Publication Title:	Analysis
Volume:	80
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 273 - 283
Date:	2020
Publisher:	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1467-8284
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LAWS Multiple languages Philosophy Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/33785