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Oxford Laws of Nature 2018 Edition by Walter Ott, Lydia Patton
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?_x000D__x000D_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._x000D__x000D_Laws of Nature spans the history of philosophy and of science, contemporary metaphysics, and contemporary philosophy of science._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
1: Walter Ott and Lydia Patton: Intuitions and Assumptions in the Debate over Laws of Nature_x000D_
2: Helen Hattab: Early Modern Roots of the Philosophical Concept of a Law of Nature_x000D_
3: Mary Domski: Laws of Nature and the Divine Order of Things: Descartes and Newton on Truth in Natural Philosophy_x000D_
4: Walter Ott: Leges sive natura: Bacon, Spinoza, and a Forgotten Concept of Law_x000D_
5: Stathis Psillos: Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature_x000D_
6: Angela Breitenbach: Laws and Ideal Unity_x000D_
7: John W. Carroll: Becoming Humean_x000D_
8: Michela Massimi: A Perspectivalist Better Best System Account of Lawhood_x000D_
9: James Woodward: Laws: An Invariance Based Account_x000D_
10: Marc Lange: How the Explanations of Natural Laws Make Some Reducible Physical Properties Natural and Explanatorily Powerful_x000D_
11: Stephen Mumford: Laws and their Exceptions_x000D_
12: Nancy Cartwright and Pedro Merlussi: Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?_x000D_