104
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Humean supervenience and best-system laws

Pages 141-155 | Published online: 21 Jul 2010

  • ARMSTRONG , D.M. 1983 . What is a Law of Nature? , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • CARROLL , J. 1994 . Laws of Nature , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • EARMAN , J. 1978 . The universality of laws . Philosophy of Science , 45 : 173 – 181 .
  • EARMAN , J. 1984 . “ Laws of nature: the empiricist challenge ” . In D. M. Armstrong , Edited by: BOGDAN , R.J. 191 – 223 . Dordrecht : Reidel .
  • FORREST , P. 1985 . What reasons do we have for believing there are laws of nature . Philosophical Inquiry , 7 : 1 – 17 .
  • FRAASSEN , B.C. VAN . 1980 . The Scientific Image , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • FRAASSEN , B.C. VAN . 1989 . Laws and Symmetry , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • HALPIN , J.F. 1994 . Legitimizing chance: the best-system approach to probabilistic laws in physical theory . Australasian Journal of Philosophy , 72 : 317 – 338 .
  • HALPIN , J.F. 1998 . Lewis, Thau and Hall on chance and the best-system account of law . Philosophy of Science , 65 : 349 – 360 .
  • HALPIN , J.F. 1999 . Nomic necessity and empiricism . Nous , 33 : 630 – 643 .
  • LANGE , M. 2000 . Natural Laws in Scientific Practice , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
  • LEWIS , O.K. 1973 . Counteifactuals , Oxford : Blackwell .
  • LEWIS , O.K. 1986a . Philosophical Papers , Vol. 2 , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • LEWIS , O.K. 1986b . On the Plurality of Worlds , Oxford : Blackwell .
  • LEWIS , O.K. 1994 . Humean supervenience debugged . Mind , 103 : 473 – 490 .
  • LEWIS , D.K. 1999 . Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • MILL , J.S. 1956 . A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation , 1st edn , London : Longman, Green . 1843
  • PLANTINGA , A. 1974 . The Nature of Necessity , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • PUTNAM , H. 1978 . There is at least one a priori truth . Erkenntnis , 13 : 153 – 170 .
  • RAMSEY , P.P. 1928 . “ Universals of law and of fact ” . In Foundations: Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics and Economics , Edited by: RAMSEY , P.P. and MELLOR , D.H. 128 – 132 . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul . (1978)
  • RAMSEY , P.P. 1929 . “ General propositions and causality ” . In Foundations: Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics and Economics , Edited by: RAMSEY , P.P. and MELLOR , D.H. 133 – 151 . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul . (1978)
  • STURGEON , S. 1998 . Humean chance: five questions for David Lewis . Erkenntnis , 49 : 321 – 335 .
  • THAU , M. 1994 . Undermining and admissibility . Mind , 103 : 491 – 503 .
  • TOOLEY , M. 1977 . The nature of laws . Canadian Journal of Philosophy , 7 : 667 – 698 .
  • VON WRIGHT , G.H. 1974 . Causality and Determinism , New York/London : Columbia University Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.