I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
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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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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist HumeanismMetaphysics of timeLaws of natureHumeanismGrowing block viewABSTRACT 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.UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência2016-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-60452016000400255Manuscrito v.39 n.4 2016reponame:Manuscrito (Online)instname:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)instacron:UNICAMP10.1590/0100-6045.2016.v39n4.mbinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBackmann,Mariuseng2016-12-09T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0100-60452016000400255Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0100-6045&lng=pt&nrm=isoPUBhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpmwrigley@cle.unicamp.br|| dascal@spinoza.tau.ac.il||publicacoes@cle.unicamp.br2317-630X0100-6045opendoar:2016-12-09T00:00Manuscrito (Online) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)false |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism Backmann,Marius Metaphysics of time Laws of nature Humeanism Growing block view |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism |
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Backmann,Marius |
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Backmann,Marius |
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Backmann,Marius |
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Metaphysics of time Laws of nature Humeanism Growing block view |
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Metaphysics of time Laws of nature Humeanism Growing block view |
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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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