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 …

Humeans are often accused of positing laws which fail to explain or are involved in
explanatory circularity. Here, I will argue that these arguments are confused, but not …

This Element provides an opinionated introduction to the metaphysics of laws of nature. The
first section distinguishes between scientific and philosophical questions about laws and …

How should we account for the extraordinary regularity in the world? Humeans and Non-
Humeans sharply disagree. According to Non-Humeans, the world behaves in an …

vi Introduction knowledge of which Plato assumes that it can be acquired by philosophical
contemplation. Accordingly, this book is in the first place about what the scientific image of …

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 …

Humean reductionism about laws of nature is the view that the laws reduce to the total
distribution of non-modal or categorical properties in spacetime. A worry about Humean …

One of the main challenges confronting Humean accounts of natural law is that Humean
laws appear to be unable to play the explanatory role of laws in scientific practice. The worry …

In Dasgupta (2013) I argued that mass is fundamentally relational. On this “relationalist”
view, the physical state of a system of bodies vis-à-vis mass consists at bottom just in facts …