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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1993 44(3):443-462; doi:10.1093/bjps/44.3.443
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The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances?

JOHN BIGELOW, JOHN COLLINS and ROBERT PARGETTER

Monash University
Columbia University
Monash University

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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