(1) History of Science Department, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, 8000, Denmark;
Abstract:
With Humean empiricism and its agnostic stance regarding the future as a foil, I take a bird’s eye view of the links between
past and future prescribed by ordinary concepts of everyday things and processes, and by scientific models of phenomenal situations.
I argue that they entitle us to claim knowledge of the future—including, where appropriate, its necessary course—in a humanly
affordable sense of ‘knowledge’.