No God, No Powers

IF 0.3 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
J. Orr
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Abstract

One common feature of debates about the best metaphysical analysis of putatively lawful phenomena is the suspicion that nomic realists who locate the modal force of such phenomena in quasi-causal necessitation relations between universals are working with a model of law that cannot convincingly erase its theological pedigree. Nancy Cartwright distills this criticism into slogan form: no God, no laws. Some have argued that a more plausible alternative for nomic realists who reject theism is to ground laws of nature in the fundamental dispositional properties or “pure powers” of physical objects. This article argues that for all its advantages over deflationary and rival realist accounts, a pandispositionalist account of law cuts against the commitment to metaphysical naturalism that its supporters almost always presuppose. It then examines and rejects a Platonic version of this account before elaborating and advancing a theistic alternative that is more theoretically powerful and more metatheoretically parsimonious. In slogan form: no God, no powers.
没有上帝,就没有力量
关于对假定规律现象的最佳形而上学分析的辩论的一个共同特征是,怀疑经济学现实主义者将这些现象的模态力量定位于共相之间的准因果必然关系,他们正在研究一种不能令人信服地抹去其神学血统的法律模型。南希·卡特赖特(Nancy Cartwright)将这种批评提炼成口号形式:没有上帝,就没有法律。一些人认为,对于拒绝有神论的经济学现实主义者来说,一个更合理的选择是将自然法则建立在物理对象的基本属性或“纯粹力量”之上。本文认为,与通货紧缩和与之竞争的现实主义解释相比,普遍配置主义的法律解释具有所有优势,但它违背了其支持者几乎总是预设的对形而上学自然主义的承诺。然后,在详细阐述和提出一种理论上更有力、元理论更简洁的有神论替代方案之前,它检验并拒绝了这种说法的柏拉图式版本。用口号的形式来说就是:没有上帝,就没有力量。
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期刊介绍: International Philosophical Quarterly has provided a peer-reviewed forum in English for the international exchange of basic philosophical ideas since 1961. The journal stands in the general tradition of theistic and personalist humanism without further restriction of school or philosophical orientation, and is open to both the philosophical discussion of contemporary issues and historical studies. It is truly international in scope with contributions from authors around the world and circulation to institutions and individuals in 70 countries. IPQ numbers among its Associate Editors scholars from both the Far East and Europe, and the journal enjoys a long-standing relationship with the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Belgium.
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