Super-Humeanism and physics: A merry relationship?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02717-w" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02717-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02717-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-020-02717-w</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Super-Humeanism and physics: A merry relationship?
Original language description
Humeanism started life as a metaphysical program that could turn out to be false if our best physical theories were to postulate ontological features at odds with Humean ones. However, even if this has arguably already happened, Humeanism is still considered one of the strongest and most appealing metaphysical theories for describing the physical world. What is even more surprising is that a radical Humean thesis-Super-Humeanism-which posits an extremely parsimonious ontology including nothing more than propertyless matter points and their distance relations, is said by its proponents to follow from an attentive reading of our best physical theories. Given its close relationship with physics, Super-Humeans argue that their doctrine (i) conforms to Scientific Realism, (ii) offers the ontology that best explains physics’ empirical evidence, and (iii) is a naturalistic theory. This paper investigates the strategies that Super-Humeans have adopted to defend these three claims and, more generally, its alleged closeness to physics. I will show that, contrary to what advocates of Super-Humeanism claim, some of its commitments have inevitably created a gap between itself and physics that is difficult to overcome. While it is laudable that Super-Humeans have adopted various strategies to close this gap, no strategy has yet fully succeeded.
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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
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Publication year
2021
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
1573-0964
Volume of the periodical
199
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1/2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
791-813
UT code for WoS article
000537329200002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085979797