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Best-System Laws, Explanation, and Unification

In recent years, an active research program has emerged that aims to develop a Humean best-system account (BSA) of laws of nature that improves on Lewis's canonical articulation of …

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Thomas Blanchard

Cause without Default

Menzies, Hitchcock, Hall, and Halpern have argued that standard causal models must be supplemented with a distinction between default and deviant events. We critically evaluate …

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Thomas Blanchard