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

Tallant, Jonathan; Baron, Sam

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 (Baron and Tallant, 2016)). 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.

Citation

Tallant, J., & Baron, S. (2021). It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them. Synthese, 198(1), 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01983-z

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 12, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Nov 15, 2018
• Publication Date: 2021-01
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 26, 2018
• Journal: Synthese
• Print ISSN: 0039-7857
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-0964
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 198
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 105-115
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01983-z
• Keywords: Philosophy; General Social Sciences
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1197819
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-018-01983-z
• Additional Information: Received: 26 April 2018; Accepted: 12 October 2018; First Online: 15 November 2018