Various senses in which laws of nature are supposed to be “universal” are distinguished. Conditions designed to capture the content of the more important of these senses are proposed and the relations among these conditions are examined. The status of universality requirements is briefly discussed.</jats:p
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This file contains a photograph of Ramsey's original manuscript, written in March 1928. It is repub...
We are good at discussing law statements of different epistemic status, and to describe logical rela...
International audienceMetaphysics should follow science in postulating laws alongside properties. I ...
Analytic philosophers of science have extensively studied laws of nature and have developed differen...
I propose an argument for the thesis that laws of nature are necessary in the sense of holding in al...
In the first part of this paper, I argue against the view that laws of nature are contingent, by att...
In traditional philosophical discussions, the following sorts of entities have been treated as parad...
I propose an argument for the thesis that laws of nature are necessary in a metaphysical sense, on t...
The paper deals with the possibility of a theory of the nature of law as such, a theory which will b...
I argue that there are at least two concepts of law of nature worthy of philosophical inte...
Can laws of nature be universal regularities and nevertheless have exceptions? Several answers to th...
The paper examines the development of natural law as a possible starting point for conceiving of eth...
Laws in the special sciences are usually regarded to be non-universal. A theory of laws in the speci...
The object of any science is to obtain general statements which will accurately describe those aspec...
This paper shows how a niche account of the metaphysics of laws of nature and physical properties—th...
This file contains a photograph of Ramsey's original manuscript, written in March 1928. It is repub...
We are good at discussing law statements of different epistemic status, and to describe logical rela...
International audienceMetaphysics should follow science in postulating laws alongside properties. I ...
Analytic philosophers of science have extensively studied laws of nature and have developed differen...
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