Building on the Boltzmann's approach to statistical mechanics, David Albert proposed a
framework for a complete physical theory that entails a probability distribution over all …

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 …

I present an argument for the view that laws ground their instances. I then outline two
important consequences that follow if we accept the conclusion of this argument. First, the …

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 …

This paper develops an account of the metaphysics of fundamental laws I call “the Package
Deal Account (PDA)” that is a descendent of Lewis' BSA but differs from it in a number of …

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 …

Humean accounts of natural lawhood (such as Lewis's) have often been criticized as unable
to account for the laws' characteristic explanatory power in science. Loewer (Philos Stud …

A common objection to Humeanism about natural laws is that, given Humeanism, laws
cannot help explain their instances, since, given the best Humean account of laws, facts …

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 …