Tyler Hildebrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Hildebrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Hildebrand |
| SIGNATURE | HILDEBRAND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5799-7134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ideology of Pragmatic Humeanism
According to the Humean Best Systems Account, laws are generalizations in the best systematization of non-modal matters of fact. Recently, it has become popular to interpret the notion of a best system pragmatically. The best system is sensitive to our interests—that is, to our goals, abilities, and limitations. This account promises a metaphysically minimalistic analysis of laws, but I argue that it is not as minimalistic as it might appear. Som…
Inductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds
Most social policies cannot be defended without making inductive inferences. For example, consider certain arguments for racial profiling and affirmative action, respectively. They begin with statistics about crime or socioeconomic indicators. Next, there is an inductive step in which the statistic is projected from the past to the future. Finally, there is a normative step in which a policy is proposed as a response in the service of some goal—f…
The nomological argument for the existence of God
According to the Nomological Argument, observed regularities in nature are best explained by an appeal to a supernatural being. A successful explanation must avoid two perils. Some explanations provide too little structure, predicting a universe without regularities. Others provide too much structure, thereby precluding an explanation of certain types of lawlike regularities featured in modern scientific theories. We argue that an explanation bas…
Individuation and explanation: A problem for dispositionalism
Non-Humeantheories of natural necessity
Non-Humean theories of natural necessity invoke modally-laden primitives to explain why nature exhibits lawlike regularities. However, they vary in the primitives they posit and in their subsequent accounts of laws of nature and related phenomena (including natural properties, natural kinds, causation, counterfactuals, and the like). This article provides a taxonomy of non-Humean theories, discusses influential arguments for and against them, and…
Natural Properties, Necessary Connections, and the Problem of Induction
The necessitarian solution to the problem of induction involves two claims: first, that necessary connections are justified by an inference to the best explanation; second, that the best theory of necessary connections entails the timeless uniformity of nature. In this paper, I defend the second claim. My arguments are based on considerations from the metaphysics of laws, properties, and fundamentality
Non-Humeantheories of natural necessity
Non-Humean theories of natural necessity invoke modally-laden primitives to explain why nature exhibits lawlike regularities. However, they vary in the primitives they posit and in their subsequent accounts of laws of nature and related phenomena (including natural properties, natural kinds, causation, counterfactuals, and the like). This article provides a taxonomy of non-Humean theories, discusses influential arguments for and against them, and…
Natural Properties, Necessary Connections, and the Problem of Induction
The necessitarian solution to the problem of induction involves two claims: first, that necessary connections are justified by an inference to the best explanation; second, that the best theory of necessary connections entails the timeless uniformity of nature. In this paper, I defend the second claim. My arguments are based on considerations from the metaphysics of laws, properties, and fundamentality
Natural Properties, Necessary Connections, and the Problem of Induction
The necessitarian solution to the problem of induction involves two claims: first, that necessary connections are justified by an inference to the best explanation; second, that the best theory of necessary connections entails the timeless uniformity of nature. In this paper, I defend the second claim. My arguments are based on considerations from the metaphysics of laws, properties, and fundamentality
Individuation and explanation: A problem for dispositionalism
Non-Humeantheories of natural necessity
Non-Humean theories of natural necessity invoke modally-laden primitives to explain why nature exhibits lawlike regularities. However, they vary in the primitives they posit and in their subsequent accounts of laws of nature and related phenomena (including natural properties, natural kinds, causation, counterfactuals, and the like). This article provides a taxonomy of non-Humean theories, discusses influential arguments for and against them, and…
The nomological argument for the existence of God
According to the Nomological Argument, observed regularities in nature are best explained by an appeal to a supernatural being. A successful explanation must avoid two perils. Some explanations provide too little structure, predicting a universe without regularities. Others provide too much structure, thereby precluding an explanation of certain types of lawlike regularities featured in modern scientific theories. We argue that an explanation bas…
The Ideology of Pragmatic Humeanism
According to the Humean Best Systems Account, laws are generalizations in the best systematization of non-modal matters of fact. Recently, it has become popular to interpret the notion of a best system pragmatically. The best system is sensitive to our interests—that is, to our goals, abilities, and limitations. This account promises a metaphysically minimalistic analysis of laws, but I argue that it is not as minimalistic as it might appear. Som…
Inductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds
Most social policies cannot be defended without making inductive inferences. For example, consider certain arguments for racial profiling and affirmative action, respectively. They begin with statistics about crime or socioeconomic indicators. Next, there is an inductive step in which the statistic is projected from the past to the future. Finally, there is a normative step in which a policy is proposed as a response in the service of some goal—f…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Evolution and Science Education (2 works)