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Earman and Roberts on Empiricism about Laws
Author(s) -
SKOW BRADFORD
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00065.x
Subject(s) - empiricism , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , philosophy , law , law and economics , sociology , political science , medicine
Earman and Roberts (2005) argue that a standard definition of “empiricism about laws of nature’’ is inadequate, and propose an alternative definition they think is better. But their argument against the standard definition fails, and their alternative is defective.