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Twelve brand-new essays by an international team of leading philosophers examine central questions on the laws of nature, such as: what is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? And, are there exceptions to the laws of nature?
Institutions and assumptions in the debate over laws of nature / Walter Ott, Lydia Patton -- Early modern roots of the philosophical concept of a law of nature / Helen Hattab -- Laws of nature and the divine order of things / Mary Domski -- Leges Sive Natura / Walter Ott -- Laws and powers in the frame of nature / Stathis Psillos -- Laws and ideal unity / Angela Breitenbach -- Becoming humean / John W. Carroll -- A perspectivalist better best system account of lawhood / Michela Massimi -- Laws: An invariance-based account / James Woodward -- How the explanations of natural laws make some reducible physical properties natural and explanatorily powerful / Marc Lange -- Laws and their exceptions / Stephen Mumford -- Are laws of nature consistent with contingency? / Nancy Cartwright, Pedro Merlussi.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index.
[Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press, 2018