THE BIG BAD BUG - WHAT ARE THE HUMANS CHANCES

Authors
BIGELOW J COLLINS J PARGETTER R
Citation
J. Bigelow et al., THE BIG BAD BUG - WHAT ARE THE HUMANS CHANCES, British journal for the philosophy of science, 44(3), 1993, pp. 443-462
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
History & Philosophy of Sciences","History & Philosophy of Sciences","History & Philosophy of Sciences
Journal title
British journal for the philosophy of science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070882
Volume
44
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
443 - 462
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0882(1993)44:3<443:TBBB-W>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary conne ctions in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the pro gramme 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.