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27Armstrong and van Fraassen on Probabilistic Laws of NatureCanadian Journal of Philosophy 42 (1): 1-13. 2012.In What is a Law of Nature? (1983) David Armstrong promotes a theory of laws according to which laws of nature are contingent relations of necessitation between universals. The metaphysics Armstrong develops uses deterministic causal laws as paradigmatic cases of laws, but he thinks his metaphysics explicates other sorts of laws too, including probabilistic laws, like that of the half-life of radium being 1602 years. Bas van Fraassen (1987) gives seven arguments for why Armstrong’s theory of law…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Philosophy of Probability |