Article ID: CBB001201356

Miracles and Two Accounts of Scientific Laws (2014)

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Keywords: causality;determinism;divine action;empiricism;free will;David Hume;miracles;philosophy of science;quantum mechanics;science Abstract Since early modernity, it has often been assumed that miracles are incompatible with the existence of the natural laws utilized in the sciences. This paper argues that this assumption is largely an artifact of empiricist accounts of laws that should be rejected for reasons internal to philosophy of science, and that no such incompatibility arises on the most important alternative interpretations, which treat laws as expressions of forces, dispositions, or causal powers.

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Authors & Contributors
Berchielli, Laura
Bussey, Peter J.
Cuffaro, Michael
Dudley, John
Golshani, Mehdi
Jaeger, Gregg
Journals
HOPOS
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Intellectual History Review
Science and Christian Belief
Publishers
Blackwell Publishers
Oxford University Press
State University of New York Press
Springer International Publishing
Springer Nature
Concepts
Causality
Philosophy of science
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Science and religion
Free will and determinism
People
Hume, David
Kant, Immanuel
Aristotle
Berkeley, George
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Buchdahl, Gerd
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
France
Greece
Scotland
Institutions
Vienna Circle
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