The Humean pragmatic turn and the case for revisionary best systems accounts

T Friend - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Lewis's original Best Systems Account of laws was not motivated much by
pragmatics. But recent commentary on his general approach to laws has taken a 'pragmatic …

Causal Fictionalism

A Eagle - … Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making …, 2024 - books.google.com
A few years ago now I argued that causation, while not a relation of fundamental physics, is
nevertheless pragmatically indispensable (Eagle 2007a). A number of other philosophers …