The paper has three parts. In the first part ExtOSR, an extended version of Ontic Structural Realism, will be introduced. ExtOSR considers structural properties as ontological primitives, where structural properties are understood as comprising both relational and structurally derived intrinsic properties or structure invariants. It is argued that ExtOSR is best suited to accommodate gauge symm...

Arguing against the claim that every dispositional property is grounded in some property other than itself, Stephen Mumford presents what he calls the ‘Ungrounded Argument’. If successful, the Ungrounded Argument would represent a major victory for anti-Humean metaphysics against its Humean rivals, as it would allow for the existence of primitive modality. Unfortunately, Humeans need not yet be...

There is an inconsistency between the access we have to our conscious lives and Humean thesis of causal generalism. This was first drawn attention by John Hawthorne, whose argument withstands a number objections. Nevertheless, it has weaknessess. The premise must be weakened if Humeans are compelled accept it, consequently, second will stronger retain validity. I shore up case against Humeanism...

the concept of causality is fundamental to our understanding of the world. the idea of causality was made popular, in western philosophy, by david hume; one of the best-know british empiricists. this paper examines critically the human idea of causality-that of a necessary/physical connection - in juxtaposition to an africa theory. the thesis that the causal relation, when correctly defined, is...

According to advocates of internalism about reasons for action, there is an interesting connection between an agent’s reasons and the agent’s present desires. On the simplest version of this view, an agent has a reason to act a certain way at some time if and only if acting that way would promote his present desires. Let us call this the sub-Humean model.1 The sub-Humean model is widely regarde...