Essentialism, Externalism, and Human Nature
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In this paper I discuss and evaluate different arguments for the view that the laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. I conclude that essentialist arguments from the nature of natural kinds fail to establish that essences are ontologically more basic than laws, and fail to offer an a priori argument for the necessity of all causal laws. Similar considerations carry across to the argument ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1358-2461,1755-3555
DOI: 10.1017/s1358246112000033