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Laws of nature- what are they? ((something about mechanisms and whether…
Laws of nature- what are they?
Standard Humean/ regularity views
Ayer I think is a more refined version of this
(Epistemic regularity= regularity+ our attitude?)
Hume himself of course
Best system views
Lewis himself
Humean supervenience seems to be a term employed here- understand this
Cohen-Callender
I have to say here though that these don't really seem to be laws of nature any more but rather an account of how
scientific laws
differ from non-laws. But they don't describe something that exists independently of us and they don't describe something that is fundamentally a view of how nature works independent of our concerns
Necessitarian views
Dretske
Cartwright
Armstrong
(something about mechanisms and whether laws are actually central to science)
attempts to replace laws with mechanisms, and other non-law alternatives, for the areas in which they are useful e.g. scientific practice and explanation
more Cartwright
the problem of ceteris paribus laws
Mitchell- laws in biology as different
Finally, what the lecture schedule refers to as the pragmatic turn. Maybe laws are just whatever's useful.
Haslanger- the normative analysis of concepts
(like in terms of helping us live and make sense of our environment)
(non-reductionist views such as powers)