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What are Humeans?

What are Humeans? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of Humean
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The days when Humeans and Homoousians mostly stayed out of one another's hair are gone, it seems, forever.
Humeans could respond to this result by either giving up Centring or abandoning the idea that the most fundamental facts do not supervene on less fundamental facts.
Humeans about motivation hold that desire is necessary for motivation, while Humeans about reasons hold that our reasons for action are grounded in our desires.
Humeans about normative reasons claim that there is a reason for you to perform a given action if and only if this would promote the satisfaction of one of your desires.
The underlying goal is to test whether causality is extrinsic for Humeans and intrinsic for anti-Humeans in this sense.
In layman's terms, Piper stands Humeans and Kantians back-to-back, pointing to the disingenuousness of the former and the laziness of the latter.

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