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 …

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 …

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 …

Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is like. How do these
fields interact with one another? How should they? Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science …

What explains the outcomes of chance processes? We claim that their setups do. Chances,
we think, mediate these explanations of outcome by setup but do not feature in them. Facts …

Dispositionalism is the theory of modality according to which all (metaphysical and natural)
modal truths are made true by some actual irreducibly dispositional property. The …

The central aim of this paper is to use a particular view about how the laws of nature govern
the evolution of our universe in order to develop and evaluate the two main competing …

What grounds facts of ground? Some metaphysicians invoke fundamental grounding laws to
answer this question. These are general principles that link grounded facts to their grounds …