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Miracles and Two Accounts of Scientific Laws (2014)

Horst, Steven (Author)

Zygon
Volume: 49
Pages: 323--347
Publication date: 2014
Language: English

DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12088

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Philosophy of science Science and religion Quantum mechanics Empiricism Causality Demonology Free will and determinism Natural law theory Hume, David

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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