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It’s one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them
Tallant, Jonathan Baron, Sam
Tallant, Jonathan
Baron, Sam
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Abstract
In this paper we offer a response to one argument in favour of Priority Monism, what Jonathan Schaffer calls the nomic argument for monism. We proceed in three stages. We begin by introducing Jonathan Schaffer’s Priority Monism and the nomic argument for that view. We then consider a response to the nomic argument that we presented in an earlier paper (Baron and Tallant in Philos Phenomenol Res 93:583–606, 2016). We show that this argument suffers from a flaw. We then go on to offer a different response to the nomic argument. The core idea is that the current laws of physics are not integrated in the manner that Schaffer requires to get the nomic argument for monism off the ground.
Keywords
Monism, laws of nature, quantum mechanics, general relativity, holism
Date
2021
Type
Journal article
Journal
Synthese
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Volume
198
Issue
Page Range
105-115
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ACU Department
Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY 4.0
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Open