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Humean Laws for Human Agents

By Michael Townsen Hicks (Editor), Siegfried Jaag (Editor), Christian Loew (Editor)
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By Michael Townsen Hicks (Editor), Siegfried Jaag (Editor), Christian Loew (Editor)
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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 considerati...

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