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Stable regularities without governing laws?
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SYSNO ASEP 0507594 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Stable regularities without governing laws? Author(s) Filomeno, Aldo (FLU-F) Source Title Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. - : Elsevier - ISSN 1355-2198
-, č. 66 (2019), s. 186-197Number of pages 12 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Laws of nature ; Physical necessity ; Non-accidental regularities ; Dynamical systems ; Complex systems ; Method of arbitrary functions Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 UT WOS 000471363800017 EID SCOPUS 85063659576 DOI 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.03.001 Annotation Can stable regularities be explained without appealing to governing laws or any other modal notion? In this paper, I consider what I will call a “Humean system”-a generic dynamical system without guiding laws-and assess whether it could display stable regularities. First, I present what can be interpreted as an account of the rise of stable regularities, following from Strevens (2003), which has been applied to explain the patterns of complex systems (such as those from meteorology and statistical mechanics). Second, since this account presupposes that the underlying dynamics displays deterministic chaos, I assess whether it can be adapted to cases where the underlying dynamics is not chaotic but truly random-that is, cases where there is no dynamics guiding the time evolution of the system. If this is so, the resulting stable, apparently non-accidental regularities are the fruit of what can be called statistical necessity rather than of a primitive physical necessity. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355219818300297?via%3Dihub
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