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SUMMARY:Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of natu
 re - Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham)
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CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:Earman and Roberts [2005a\,b] have argued for Humean superveni
 ence about laws of nature based on an argument from epistemic access. In r
 ough outline\, their argument relies on the claim that if Humean superveni
 ence is false\, then we cannot have any empirical evidence in favour of ta
 king a proposition to be a law of nature as opposed to merely accidentally
  true. I argue that Newton's methodology in the _Principia_ provides a cou
 nterexample to their claim. In particular\, I argue that the success or fa
 ilure of chains of subjunctive reasoning is empirically accessible\, and t
 hat this provides a way of gaining empirical evidence for or against a pro
 position being a law of nature (even under the assumption that Humean supe
 rvenience fails).
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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