Williamson on laws and progress in philosophy

Daniel Stoljar*

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    Abstract

    Williamson rejects the stereotype that there is progress in science but none in philosophy on the grounds (a) that it assumes that in science progress consists in the discovery of universal laws and (b) that this assumption is false, since in both science and philosophy progress consists at least sometimes in the development of better models. I argue that the assumption is false for a more general reason as well: that progress in both science and philosophy consists in the provision of better information about dependency structures.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)37-42
    Number of pages6
    JournalEpistemology and Philosophy of Science
    Volume56
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

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