The Big Bad Bug
What are the Humean's Chances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8396240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Bigelow (0000-0002-3087-2809, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute), John Collins (0000-0002-3180-4357, Columbia University), Robert Pargetter (Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443-462 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/44.3.443 |
| OpenAlex | W2025790106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.
Doctrine · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Possible world · Supervenience · Theology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Projecting Chances
Symposium: Chance and Credence
Time Travel in Indeterministic Worlds
Finite Frequentism in a Big World
Difference-making and deterministic chance
What Chance Doesn't Know
The Metaphysical Consequences of Counterfactual Skepticism
Contact with the Nomic
On background
The big bad bug bites anti-realists about chance
Deterministic Chance
Principled Chances
Chance, Possibility, and Explanation
Deterministic Chance
Chance without Credence
Justifying Lewis’s Kinematics of Chance
A Closer Look at the ‘New’ Principle
Are objective chances compatible with determinism
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |