Humean accounts of natural law have long been charged with being unable to account for
the laws' explanatory power in science. One form of this objection is to charge Humean …

Why does a dough rise? We might cite the presence of yeast as a reason why and explain
the mechanism by which one brings about the other. This book investigates the idea of …

Laws of nature are sometimes said to govern their instances. Spelling out what governance
is, however, is an important task that has only recently received sustained philosophical …

The causal closure of the physical poses a familiar causal exclusion problem for the special
sciences that stems from the idea that if closure is true, then fundamental physical properties …

The big bang is the cause of every event in our universe, and hence it explains all
subsequent cosmic history. But can we explain the big bang itself? This chapter explores a …

This thesis examines a series of questions about possibility. The starting point is a neglected
claim in James Woodward's interventionist theory of causation: interventions are non-trivially …

Here is a puzzling phenomenon. Moral theories are typically thought to be necessary. If act
utilitarianism is true, for example, then it is necessarily true. However, scientific theories are …

Some facts ground by generating: they ground by bringing about other facts or grounding
connections among them. Intuitively, other facts play a similar role to background conditions …

This paper argues that there are no such things as statistical explanations, understood as
explanations of the occurrence of individual outcomes or collections of these by an appeal to …

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