In Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance betweenthe picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves asagents who think and act. If the mind and the world are entirely governed by natural laws, thereseems to be no room left for free will to operate. Moreover, although the laws of physical scienceare clear and verifiable, the sciences of the mind seem to yield only rough generalizations ratherthan universal laws of nature. Horst argues that these two familiar problems in philosophy--theapparent tension between free will and natural law and the absence of "strict" laws in thesciences of the mind--are artifacts of a particular philosophical thesis about the nature of laws:that laws make claims about how objects actually behave. Horst argues against this Empiricistorthodoxy and proposes an alternative account of laws--an account rooted in a cognitivist approachto philosophy of science. Horst argues that once we abandon the Empiricist misunderstandings of thenature of laws there is no contrast between "strict" laws and generalizations about the mind("ceteris paribus" laws, laws hedged by the caveat "other things being equal"), and that acommitment to laws is compatible with a commitment to the existence of free will. Horst'salternative account, which he calls "cognitive Pluralism," vindicates the truth of psychologicallaws and resolves the tension between human freedom and the sciences.
Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University.
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