The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances?

John Bigelow · John Collins · Robert Pargetter

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Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.

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