Half-Baked Humeanism

Simpson, William M. R.

doi:10.4324/9781315211626-7

All Outputs (4)

Knowing nature: beyond reduction and emergence (2017)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W. (2017). Knowing nature: beyond reduction and emergence. In A. B. Torrance, & T. H. McCall (Eds.), Knowing Creation: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science (237-260). Zondervan

Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism (2017)
Book Chapter
Koons, R. C., Simpson, W. M. R., & Teh, N. J. (2017). Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism. In W. M. R. Simpson, R. C. Koons, & N. J. Teh (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (1-11). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211626-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers the challenge to traditional Aristotelian metaphysics posed by the 'block universe' of special relativity, as modeled by... Read More about Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism.

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (2017)
Book
Simpson, W. M. R., Koons, R. C., & Teh, N. J. (Eds.). (2017). Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211626

The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned w... Read More about Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science.

Half-Baked Humeanism (2017)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W. M. R. (2017). Half-Baked Humeanism. In W. M. R. Simpson, R. C. Koons, & N. J. Teh (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (123-145). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211626-7

Toby Handfield has advanced a subtle form of dispositionalism that purports to reconcile the concept of causal powers with broadly Humean convictions by dissolving the requirement for objectively modal relations between powers and their manifestation... Read More about Half-Baked Humeanism.