The governance of laws of nature

Guidance and production

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21371269
AutoresTobias Wilsch (University of Tübingen, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume178
Fascículo3
Páginas909-933
Data de publicação2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8116 • E-ISSN: 1573-0883
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11098-020-01465-4
OpenAlexW3029974809
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas35

Realists about laws of nature and their Humean opponents disagree on whether laws ‘govern’. An independent commitment to the ‘governing conception’ of laws pushes many towards the realist camp. Despite its significance, however, no satisfactory account of governance has been offered. The goal of this article is to develop such an account. I base my account on two claims. First, we should distinguish two notions of governance, ‘guidance’ and ‘production’, and secondly, explanatory phenomena other than laws are also candidates for governance. My goal is to develop a unified account which captures both guidance and production as well as the governance of phenomena, such as essence and logical consequence. The account of governance I develop belongs to the family of modal accounts, which was popularized by David Armstrong, but it also employs essentialist resources. If successful, this modal-essentialist account not only reveals the costs that proponents of governance incur, but it also puts that important notion on a solid theoretical foundation

Corporate governance · Economics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Law and economics · Management · Metaphysics · Microeconomics · Modal · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Political science · Production (economics) · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science