Bradley, D (2017) A Priori Causal Laws. Inquiry, 60 (4). pp. 358-370. ISSN 0020-174X
Abstract
Sober and Elgin defend the claim that there are a priori causal laws in biology. Lange and Rosenberg take issue with this on Humean grounds, among others. I will argue that Sober and Elgin don’t go far enough – there are a priori causal laws in many sciences. Furthermore, I will argue that this thesis is compatible with a Humean metaphysics and an empiricist epistemology.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-nonCommercial-noDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | laws of nature, cause, functionalism, fitness, natural selection, a priori |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 656441 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2016 11:55 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2017 06:23 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1175378 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1175378 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:95777 |