A challenge for Super-Humeanism: the problem of immanent comparisons
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01914-y" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01914-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01914-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-018-01914-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A challenge for Super-Humeanism: the problem of immanent comparisons
Original language description
According to the doctrine of Super-Humeanism (Esfeld in Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1426-8, 2017), the world’s mosaic consists only of permanent matter points and changing spatial relations, while all the other entities and features figuring in scientific theories are nomological parameters, whose role is merely to build the best law system. In this paper, I develop an argument against Super-Humeanism by pointing out that it is vulnerable to and does not have the resources to solve the well-known problem of immanent comparisons. Firstly, I show that it cannot endorse a fundamentalist solution à la Lewis, since its two pillars-a minimalist ontology and a best system account of lawhood—would generate, together, a tedious problem of internal coherence. Secondly, I consider anti-fundamentalist strategies, proposed within Humeanism, and find them inapplicable to the Super-Humean doctrine. The concern is that, since it is impossible to choose the best law system within Super-Humeanism, this doctrine may be charged with incoherence.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Synthese
ISSN
0039-7857
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
197
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
4001-4020
UT code for WoS article
000560460900017
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053398887