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Christian Loew, Siegfried Jaag, Humean Laws and (Nested) Counterfactuals, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 278, January 2020, Pages 93–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz037
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Abstract
Humean reductionism about laws of nature is the view that the laws reduce to the total distribution of non-modal or categorical properties in spacetime. A worry about Humean reductionism is that it cannot motivate the characteristic modal resilience of laws under counterfactual suppositions and that it thus generates wrong verdicts about certain nested counterfactuals. In this paper, we defend Humean reductionism by motivating an account of the modal resilience of Humean laws that gets nested counterfactuals right.
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