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What is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? To what extent do the laws of nature permit contingency? Are there exceptions to the laws of nature? Is it possible to give a reductive analysis of lawhood, or is it a primitive?
Twelve new essays by an international team of leading philosophers take up these and other central questions on the laws of nature, whilst also examining some of the most important intuitions and assumptions that have guided the debate over laws of nature since the concepts invention in the seventeenth century.
Laws of Nature spans the history of philosophy and of science, contemporary metaphysics, and contemporary philosophy of science.
Contents
1: Walter Ott and Lydia Patton: Intuitions and Assumptions in the Debate over Laws of Nature
2: Helen Hattab: Early Modern Roots of the Philosophical Concept of a Law of Nature
3: Mary Domski: Laws of Nature and the Divine Order of Things: Descartes and Newton on Truth in Natural Philosophy
4: Walter Ott: Leges sive natura: Bacon, Spinoza, and a Forgotten Concept of Law
5: Stathis Psillos: Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature
6: Angela Breitenbach: Laws and Ideal Unity
7: John W. Carroll: Becoming Humean
8: Michela Massimi: A Perspectivalist Better Best System Account of Lawhood
9: James Woodward: Laws: An Invariance Based Account
10: Marc Lange: How the Explanations of Natural Laws Make Some Reducible Physical Properties Natural and Explanatorily Powerful
11: Stephen Mumford: Laws and their Exceptions
12: Nancy Cartwright and Pedro Merlussi: Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?
