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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES: AGAINST BEST-SYSTEM THEORIES WITHOUT NATURALNESS
T. Sider
Research by Theodore Sider (Rutgers University) defends David Lewis’s original best-system theory—including its commitment to perfectly natural properties—and rebuts “lite” best-system alternatives. Sider argues that alleged metaphysical gaps between Lewisian lawhood and scientific practice are misguided and finds package-deal, strength-measure, bridging-law, and relativist substitutes lacking; his conclusion: retain naturalness.
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