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Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on the Humean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui generis metaphysical entities but merely particularly effective summaries of what actually happens. The most discussed recent work on Humeanism emphasizes the laws' usefulness for limited agents and uses pragmatic considerations to address fundamental and long-standing problems. The current volume develops and critically examines pragmatic Humean accounts, with innovative new work on the epistemology of laws and chance, the problem of induction, counterfactuals, special science laws, and a Humean account of essence. Taken together, the papers provide a roadmap for developing pragmatic Humeanism and connate views, setting the agenda for future research.
Contents
Preface
Michael T. Hicks, Siegfried Jaag, and Christian Loew: Humeanism and the pragmatic turn
1: Craig Callender: Humean Laws of Nature: The End of the Good Old Days
2: Jenann Ismael: Humean Disillusion
3: Wolfgang Schwarz: Knowing the Powers
4: Alison Fernandes: Naturalism, Functionalism and Chance: Not a Best Fit for the Humean
5: Heather Demarest and Elizabeth Miller: Generalizing the Problem of Humean Undermining
6: Barry Loewer: Are Humean Laws Flukes?
7: Harjit Bhogal: The Package Deal Account of Naturalness
8: Markus Schrenk: Properties for and of Better Best Systems
9: Chris Dorst: Predictive Infelicities and the Instability of Predictive Optimality
10: Thomas Blanchard: Best-System Laws, Explanation, and Unification
11: John T. Roberts: A Discourse on Methods; or, Humean Metaphysics of Science Without Best Systems
12: Ned Hall: Humean Reductionism about Essence
