The Power to Govern

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12749923
AutoresErica Shumener (0000-0003-4840-4437, University of Pittsburgh, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume36
Fascículo1
Páginas270-291
Data de publicação2022-11-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophical Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1520-8583 • E-ISSN: 1758-2245
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phpe.12168
OpenAlexW4310118424
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas73

I provide a new account of what it is for the laws of nature to govern the evolution of events. I locate the source of governance in the content of law propositions. As such, I do not appeal to notions of ground, essence, or production to characterize governance. After introducing the account, I use it to outline previously unrecognized varieties of governance. I also specify that laws must govern to have two theoretical virtues: explanatory power as well as a theoretical virtue I call expansiveness . A theory is expansive, roughly, when it can do more with less

Appeal · Corporate governance · Economics · Epistemology · Expansive · Explanatory power · Law and economics · Management · Physics · Political science · Positive economics · Power (physics · Sociology · Virtue · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science