Should Special Science Laws Be Written into the Semantics of Counterfactuals?
Adam Elga has presented an anti-thermodynamic process as a counterexample to Lewis’s default semantics for counterfactuals. The outstanding reaction of Jonathan Schaffer and Boris Kment is revisionary. It sacrifices Lewis’s aim of defining causation in terms of counterfactual dependence. Lewis himse...
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| Language: | English |
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2019-12-01
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| Series: | Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2019-0010 |