The Emergence of Better Best System Laws

How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws

“…It also facilitates informative interrelations among the sciences because there need be no expectation of reduction of the entities in one mosaic to another, and yet we can reasonably explore the compositional dependencies that hold (cf. Schrenk 2017). From here on, I take it that this "science-relativized" view of worlds' mosaics is the preferable picture for Humeans to adopt.…”

“…Callander and Cohen's view has significant appeal, since it no longer requires Humeans to be committed to a single and entirely language-independent individuation of the world. It also facilitates informative inter-relations among the sciences, since there need be no expectation of reduction of the entitites in one mosaic to another, and yet we can reasonably explore the compositional dependencies which hold (cf Schrenk 2017). From hereon, I take it that this 'science-relativised' view of worlds' mosaics is the preferable picture for the Humeans to adopt.…”

Particles Do Not Conspire

“…I am not the first to attempt such a task. Schrenk's (2017) project is similar to mine: he too finds BBS to be an attractive way of allowing SSGs to autonomously earn their status as laws, but looks elsewhere to ground their projectibility. His strategy is to describe an emergence relation which shows how SSGs might supervene upon more fundamental laws.…”

“…Schrenk thereby offers a possible dependence relation for one set of laws upon another set of laws. He is careful not to overstate the clout of his relation, since whether or not it holds "is a contingent, empirical question on which I wish to remain silent" (Schrenk 2017 , 7); the point is to show that the autonomy of SSGs and their dependence on more fundamental laws can be conferred independently.…”

“…Ravens are black, provided they are not albinos; but electrons are always negatively charged. For coverage of how the ceteris paribus character of SSGs might bear on this particular topic, seeSchrenk (2014Schrenk ( , 2017.…”