I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism

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Autor(a) principal: Backmann,Marius
Data de Publicação: 2016
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Manuscrito (Online)
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Resumo: ABSTRACT In this paper, I propose a variant of a Humean account of laws called "Open Future Humeanism" (OFH), which holds that since the laws supervene partly on future events, there are at any instant infinitely many possible future courses of events. I argue that if one wants to take the openness of the future that OFH proposes ontologically serious, then OFH is best represented within a growing block view of time. I further discuss some of OFH's problems which stem from the fact that in this view, there are no laws as long as time progresses. These problems can be solved by adding a temporal operator to the laws, so that at any instant, we get a set of tensed laws which held up to and including that instant.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
title I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
spellingShingle I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
Backmann,Marius
Metaphysics of time
Laws of nature
Humeanism
Growing block view
title_short I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
title_full I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
title_fullStr I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
title_full_unstemmed I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
title_sort I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
author Backmann,Marius
author_facet Backmann,Marius
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Backmann,Marius
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Metaphysics of time
Laws of nature
Humeanism
Growing block view
topic Metaphysics of time
Laws of nature
Humeanism
Growing block view
description ABSTRACT In this paper, I propose a variant of a Humean account of laws called "Open Future Humeanism" (OFH), which holds that since the laws supervene partly on future events, there are at any instant infinitely many possible future courses of events. I argue that if one wants to take the openness of the future that OFH proposes ontologically serious, then OFH is best represented within a growing block view of time. I further discuss some of OFH's problems which stem from the fact that in this view, there are no laws as long as time progresses. These problems can be solved by adding a temporal operator to the laws, so that at any instant, we get a set of tensed laws which held up to and including that instant.
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