Transitivity and Humeanism about Laws
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Humeanism about laws has been famously accused of the explanatory circularity by David Armstrong and Tim Maudlin, since the Humean laws hold in virtue of their instances and, at the same time, scientifically explain those very instances. Barry Loewer argued that the circularity challenge rests on an equivocation: in his view, once the metaphysical explanation is properly distinguished from the scientific explanation, the circularity vanishes. However, Marc Lange restored the circularity
by appealing to his transitivity principle, which connects the two types of explanation. Lange’s transitivity principle has been widely discussed and criticised in the literature. In view of counterexamples, Lange refined both the principle, by taking into account the contrastive nature of explanation, and the requirement of prohibition on self-explanation. Recently, Michael Hicks has developed a new strategy for defending Humeanism about laws from the refined circularity challenge, critically appeali...ng to the contrastive nature of both explanations and meta-explanations. We will argue that his strategy fails.
Кључне речи:
humean laws / explanatory circularity / transitivity / contrastive explanationsИзвор:
Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2023, 23Издавач:
- Institut za Filozofiju, Zagreb
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Министарство науке, технолошког развоја и иновација Републике Србије, институционално финансирање - 200163 (Универзитет у Београду, Филозофски факултет) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200163)
- Univerzitet u Rijeci, Hrvatska (uniri-human-18-239).
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Filozofija / PhilosophyTY - JOUR AU - Jandric, Andrej AU - Jovanovic Kozlowski, Radmila PY - 2023 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5738 AB - Humeanism about laws has been famously accused of the explanatory circularity by David Armstrong and Tim Maudlin, since the Humean laws hold in virtue of their instances and, at the same time, scientifically explain those very instances. Barry Loewer argued that the circularity challenge rests on an equivocation: in his view, once the metaphysical explanation is properly distinguished from the scientific explanation, the circularity vanishes. However, Marc Lange restored the circularity by appealing to his transitivity principle, which connects the two types of explanation. Lange’s transitivity principle has been widely discussed and criticised in the literature. In view of counterexamples, Lange refined both the principle, by taking into account the contrastive nature of explanation, and the requirement of prohibition on self-explanation. Recently, Michael Hicks has developed a new strategy for defending Humeanism about laws from the refined circularity challenge, critically appealing to the contrastive nature of both explanations and meta-explanations. We will argue that his strategy fails. PB - Institut za Filozofiju, Zagreb T2 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy T1 - Transitivity and Humeanism about Laws IS - 23 DO - doi.org/10.52685/cjp.23.68.2 ER -
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Jandric, A.,& Jovanovic Kozlowski, R.. (2023). Transitivity and Humeanism about Laws. in Croatian Journal of Philosophy Institut za Filozofiju, Zagreb.(23). https://doi.org/doi.org/10.52685/cjp.23.68.2
Jandric A, Jovanovic Kozlowski R. Transitivity and Humeanism about Laws. in Croatian Journal of Philosophy. 2023;(23). doi:doi.org/10.52685/cjp.23.68.2 .
Jandric, Andrej, Jovanovic Kozlowski, Radmila, "Transitivity and Humeanism about Laws" in Croatian Journal of Philosophy, no. 23 (2023), https://doi.org/doi.org/10.52685/cjp.23.68.2 . .