Laws of nature and causal powers: Two illusory solutions

Authors

  • Sebastian Briceño Universidad de Concepción

Keywords:

Humean Supervenience, Nomic Realism, Dispositional Essentialism, Laws of nature, Causation, Dispositions

Abstract

The metaphysics of Humean Supervenience has been attacked by two explicitly anti-Humean alternatives: Nomic Realism and Dispositional Essentialism. Each one of these alternatives offers an ontological explanation of the actual distribution of first-order instantiations. They both claim, against the Humean, that this distribution is not a metaphysical accident. In this paper, I argue that the explanations offered by them are illusory.

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Author Biography

Sebastian Briceño, Universidad de Concepción

Universidad de Concepción
Departamento de Filosofía
Beltrán Mathieu 15–A, Concepción (Chile)

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Published

2018-11-20

How to Cite

Briceño, S. (2018). Laws of nature and causal powers: Two illusory solutions. ALPHA. Revista De Artes, Letras Y Filosofía, 1(41), 73–85. Retrieved from https://revistas.ulagos.cl/index.php/alpha/article/view/1631

Issue

N°41 Volumen II 2015

Section

Articles