The ultimate argument against dispositional monist accounts of laws
The ultimate argument against dispositional monist accounts of laws
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DOI:
10.1093/analys/ans114
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发表时间:
2012-10-01
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Smart, Ben
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作者:
Barker, Stephen;Smart, Ben
Alexander Bird argues that David Armstrong’s necessitarian conception of physical modality and laws of nature generates a vicious regress with respect to necessitation. We show that precisely the same regress afflicts Bird’s dispositional-monist theory, and indeed, related views, such as that of Mumford and Anjum. We argue that dispositional monism is basically Armstrongian necessitarianism modified to allow for a thesis about property identity.