caa a22 4500 38636477X CHVBK 20180307111928.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300015808 doi S0012217300015808 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300015808 Martin Robert M. Dalhousie University Wilson's Laws and Other Worlds [Elektronische Daten] [Robert M. Martin] I like the idea behind this book. It is an empiricist alternative to the powerful and influential contemporary rationalist position on scientific law, causality, and counterfactuals, associated with Chisholm and David Lewis, which "takes its inspiration from modal logic and set theory [and] involves ... an assumption of non-truth-functional connectives to define unanalyzable natural necessities, or defines such connectives and such necessities in terms of an ontology of possible worlds”. Wilson's views, springing from Hume and Nelson Goodman, involve no unobservables such as natural necessities or possible worlds, but are based instead on good old Humean laws of constant conjunction. How lovely if Wilson could pull this off! Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/2(1989), 321-328 0012-2173 28:2<321 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015808 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015808 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Martin Robert M. Dalhousie University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/2(1989), 321-328 0012-2173 28:2<321 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge