A century after the discovery of quantum mechanics, the meaning of quantum mechanics still
remains elusive. This is largely due to the puzzling nature of the wave function, the central …

" Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical
problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems; the same …

This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an
ontology of the natural world that matches all of today's well-established physical theories …

It is generally argued that if the wave-function in the de Broglie–Bohm theory is a physical
field, it must be a field in configuration space. Nevertheless, it is possible to interpret the …

This article argues for a revised best system account (BSA) of laws of nature. David Lewis's
original BSA has two main elements. On the one hand, there is the Humean base, which is …

Humeanism about laws of nature—the view that the laws reduce to the Humean mosaic—is
a popular view, but currently existing versions face powerful objections. The non …

Humeanism about laws of nature is, roughly, the view that the laws of nature are just
patterns, or ways of describing patterns, in the mosaic of events. In this paper, I survey some …

In a quantum universe with a strong arrow of time, we postulate a low-entropy boundary
condition (the past hypothesis, PH) to account for the temporal asymmetry. In this article, I …

Non‐Humean theories of natural necessity invoke modally‐laden primitives to explain why
nature exhibits lawlike regularities. However, they vary in the primitives they posit and in …

A priori metaphysics has come under repeated attack by naturalistic metaphysicians, who
take their closer connection to the sciences to confer greater epistemic credentials on their …