A priori causal laws |
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| Authors: | Darren Bradley |
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| Affiliation: | Philosophy Department, Leeds University, Leeds, UK |
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| Abstract: | Sober and Elgin defend the claim that there are a priori causal laws in biology. Lange and Rosenberg take issue with this on Humean grounds, among others. I will argue that Sober and Elgin don’t go far enough – there are a priori causal laws in many sciences. Furthermore, I will argue that this thesis is compatible with a Humean metaphysics and an empiricist epistemology. |
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| Keywords: | Laws of nature cause functionalism fitness natural selection a priori |
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