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    It is not the case that The Humean approach to laws of nature does not by itself resolve the problem of determinism and human freedom.

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    • 1.On Humean supervenience (Lewis), laws are mere regularities with no governing force, so 'determinism' reduces to patterns of events rather than necessitation.
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    • 2.If determinism loses its modal force under Humeanism, the traditional incompatibilist threat—that laws compel agents—dissolves without requiring independent resolution.
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    • 3.Compatibilists like Lewis explicitly leverage Humean laws to reframe freedom as pattern-consistency, showing the account directly shapes, not bypasses, the free will debate.
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    • 1.Ramsey and Lewis's Best Systems Account entails that laws supervene on the Humean mosaic, making the agent's history partly constitutive of the very laws that allegedly constrain them.
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    • 2.If agents are partially constitutive of the laws governing them, the asymmetry between 'law' and 'agent' presupposed by classical incompatibilist arguments is undermined from within Humeanism itself.
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    • 1.Humean views deny laws most of their pushiness and explanatory force.
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    • 2.On such views, questions about determinism and human freedom must be approached afresh rather than being dissolved by the Humean account of laws.
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