Miracles and Two Accounts of Scientific Laws

Since early modernity, it has often been assumed that miracles are incompatible with the existence of the natural laws utilized in the sciences. This paper argues that this assumption is largely an artifact of empiricist accounts of laws that should be rejected for reasons internal to philosophy of...

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Main Author: Horst, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
In: Zygon
Year: 2014, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 323-347
Further subjects:B Free Will
B quantum mechanics
B David Hume
B Determinism
B philosophy of science
B Miracles
B Empiricism
B Science
B Divine Action
B Causality
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