Sarcouncil Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Sarcouncil Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
An Open access peer reviewed international Journal
Publication Frequency- Monthly
Publisher Name-SARC Publisher
ISSN Online- 2945-3488
Country of origin- PHILIPPINES
Impact Factor- 4.1
Language- English
Keywords
- Anthropology, History, Geography, Archeology, Business Administration, Communication, Criminology, Economics, Education, Humanities, Laws, Government, policies, Linguistics, International Relations, Political Science, Geography, History, Law, Peace Studies, Psychology.
Editors

Dr Hazim Abdul-Rahman
Associate Editor
Sarcouncil Journal of Applied Sciences

Entessar Al Jbawi
Associate Editor
Sarcouncil Journal of Multidisciplinary

Rishabh Rajesh Shanbhag
Associate Editor
Sarcouncil Journal of Engineering and Computer Sciences

Dr Md. Rezowan ur Rahman
Associate Editor
Sarcouncil Journal of Biomedical Sciences

Dr Ifeoma Christy
Associate Editor
Sarcouncil Journal of Entrepreneurship And Business Management
An Enquiry on laws of Nature and Circularity Problem
Keywords: Hume, Laws of Nature, Universals, Anti-Humeanism, circularity problem
Abstract: The most important question in the metaphysics of science is “What is the nature of fundamental laws?”. This paper aims to discuss this question concerning the debate surrounding David Hume’s approach to the problem. According to the Anti-humean view, laws of nature are not regularity or generalization but are relations between universals. Many philosophers support or defend this like Dretske, Armstrong, and Tooley. There are differences between Dretske and Tooley i.e., according to Dretske, the form of laws should be written as: “F-ness à G-ness” but according to Tooley, it can be written as (x)(Fx > Gx). According to Dretske, laws support counterfactual, but according to Tooley, laws doesn’t support counterfactual. According to the Humean view about laws of nature, laws are certain sorts of regularities in particular matters of fact. This paper aims to discuss the debates and approaches of Humean and Anti-Humean regarding laws of nature and further what problems these approaches lead to and what possible responses they could have. There are many objections against humeanism- non-supervenience, explanatory circularity, non-fundamentality, etc, The most common objection to humeanism on which the paper will shed focus on is the “The Circularity problem”. This paper will discuss the problem and responses to it
Author
- Vaishali
- PhD; Research scholar; University of Delhi; Department of Philosophy
- Shalu Jaiswal
- Masters in philosophy; University of Delhi; Department of philosophy.