Abstract The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between
Humeans, who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter, and non-Humeans …

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 …

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 …

Inspired both by our ordinary understanding of the world and by reflection on science, anti-
Humeanism is a growing trend in metaphysics. Anti-Humeans reject the Lewisian doctrine of …

Despite its apparent complexity, our world seems to be governed by simple laws of physics.
This volume provides a philosophical introduction to such laws. I explain how they are …

Realists about laws of nature and their Humean opponents disagree on whether laws
'govern'. An independent commitment to the 'governing conception'of laws pushes many …

Many philosophers take purportedly logical cases of ground (such as a true disjunction
being grounded in its true disjunct (s)) to be obvious cases, and indeed such cases have …

I provide a new account of what it is for the laws of nature to govern the evolution of events. I
locate the source of governance in the content of law propositions. As such, I do not appeal …

Nomic realists have traditionally put laws to work within a theory of natural modality, in order
to provide a metaphysical source for causal necessitation, counterfactuals, and dispositions …