It’s one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them

Synthese 198 (1):105-115 (2018)
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Abstract

In this paper we offer a response to one argument in favour of Priority Monism, what Jonathan Schaffer calls the nomic argument for monism. We proceed in three stages. We begin by introducing Jonathan Schaffer’s Priority Monism and the nomic argument for that view. We then consider a response to the nomic argument that we presented in an earlier paper. We show that this argument suffers from a flaw. We then go on to offer a different response to the nomic argument. The core idea is that the current laws of physics are not integrated in the manner that Schaffer requires to get the nomic argument for monism off the ground.

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Jonathan Tallant
Nottingham University
Sam Baron
University of Melbourne

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What is priority monism?David Mark Kovacs - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 178 (9):2873-2893.

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