Laws and other worlds: a humean account of laws and counterfactuals
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Dordrecht [u.a.]
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1986
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| Physical Description: | XV, 328 S. |
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| adam_text | Titel: Laws and other worlds
Autor: Wilson, Fred
Jahr: 1986
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
CHAPTER ONE / SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION 1
I The Aims of Science 1
II Ideals and Research 28
CHAPTER TWO / LAWS, ACCIDENTAL GENERALITIES AND
COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONALS 72
I Introduction: Counterfactuals and the Humean
Account of Laws 72
II Accidental Generalities 99
III Laws as Relations among Universals: A Recent
Defence of Necessary Connections 111
CHAPTER THREE / POSSIBLE WORLDS: A DEFENCE OF HUME 133
I Introduction 133
II The Possible Worlds Account of Counterfactuals 134
III How Possible Are Possible Worlds? 139
IV Nomic and Causal Dependence 150
V Similarity among Possible Worlds 155
VI Lewis Regularity View of Laws 168
VII Are There Counterfactual Conditionals that Involve
No Laws? 172
VIII The Case for Lewis Analysis Examined 195
(i) Semantics of Counterfactuals 195
(ii) Causal Discourse 224
(hi) Causal Pre-emption 234
(iv) Which Belief-Contravening Assumptions Are
Reasonable? 243
(v) Counterfactuals and Inductive Support 280
IX Conclusion 288
vii
viii TABLE OF CONTENTS
NOTES 291
BIBLIOGRAPHY 315
INDEX OF NAMES 322
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 324
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