Add to ORKGAlexander Bird (2001; 2002; 2007) offers a powerful argument showing that, regardless of whether necessitarianism or contingentism about laws is true, salt necessarily dissolves in water. The argument is that the same laws of nature that are necessary for the constitution of salt necessitate the solubility of salt. This paper shows that Bird’s argument faces a serious objection if the possibility of emergentism – in particular, C. D. Broad’s account – is taken into account. The idea is (roughly) that some emergent laws in some possible worlds may disrupt the solubility of salt without disrupting its constitution
In ‘Quiddistic Knowledge’ (Schaffer in Philos Stud 123:1–32, 2005), Jonathan Schaffer argued influen...
Once something is said of something else, this “what it is that exists” or X of which what is said i...
It is common to appeal to governing laws of nature in order to explain the existence of natural regu...
Alexander Bird (2001; 2002; 2007) offers a powerful argument showing that, regardless of whether nec...
In this paper, I intend to argue against Alexander Bird‟s thesis (2001) that the law salt dissolves ...
This paper shows how a niche account of the metaphysics of laws of nature and physical properties—th...
In this paper I argue that it is not a priori that all the laws of nature are contingent. I assume t...
I build a case for the impossibility of natural necessity as anything other than a species of metaph...
Metaphysics should follow science in postulating laws alongside properties. I defend this claim agai...
Alexander Bird provides us with 'The Ultimate Argument Against Armstrong's Contingent Necessitation ...
In the first part of this paper, I argue against the view that laws of nature are contingent, by att...
Nomic realists have traditionally put laws to work within a theory of natural modality, in order to ...
This chapter focuses on the dispute between necessitarians and contingentists, mainly addressing the...
This paper discusses recent attempts to use essentialist arguments based on the work of Kripke and P...
In ‘Quiddistic Knowledge’ (Schaffer in Philos Stud 123:1–32, 2005), Jonathan Schaffer argued influen...
Once something is said of something else, this “what it is that exists” or X of which what is said i...
It is common to appeal to governing laws of nature in order to explain the existence of natural regu...
Alexander Bird (2001; 2002; 2007) offers a powerful argument showing that, regardless of whether nec...
In this paper, I intend to argue against Alexander Bird‟s thesis (2001) that the law salt dissolves ...
This paper shows how a niche account of the metaphysics of laws of nature and physical properties—th...
In this paper I argue that it is not a priori that all the laws of nature are contingent. I assume t...
I build a case for the impossibility of natural necessity as anything other than a species of metaph...
Metaphysics should follow science in postulating laws alongside properties. I defend this claim agai...
Alexander Bird provides us with 'The Ultimate Argument Against Armstrong's Contingent Necessitation ...
In the first part of this paper, I argue against the view that laws of nature are contingent, by att...
Nomic realists have traditionally put laws to work within a theory of natural modality, in order to ...
This chapter focuses on the dispute between necessitarians and contingentists, mainly addressing the...
This paper discusses recent attempts to use essentialist arguments based on the work of Kripke and P...
In ‘Quiddistic Knowledge’ (Schaffer in Philos Stud 123:1–32, 2005), Jonathan Schaffer argued influen...
Once something is said of something else, this “what it is that exists” or X of which what is said i...
It is common to appeal to governing laws of nature in order to explain the existence of natural regu...