Unorthodox Humeanism
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Unorthodox Humeanism

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
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Unorthodox Humeanism

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The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today's metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism. There are physical and metaphysical arguments to show that orthodox Humeanism is in trouble. The unorthodox metaphysical turn consists in taking the fundamental properties to be relations rather than intrinsic properties. The book spells out in detail what an unorthodox version of Humeanism amounts to and shows that in turning unorthodox Humeanism offers a competitive metaphysical framework for science without commitment to irreducible causation.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110323740
eBook ISBN
9783110323986
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Language in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. The nature of fundamental properties
  2. Chapter 1 - Orthodox Humeanism on laws of nature andcausation
  3. Chapter 2 - Orthodox dispositionalism on laws of natureand causation
  4. Chapter 3 - Humeanism vs. dispositionalism
  5. Chapter 4 - Unorthodox Humeanism
  6. Humean metaphysics of causation asinformed of contemporary science
  7. Bibliography
  8. Index
  9. Blank Page

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