An edition of The law-governed universe
(2008)
The law-governed universe
by John T. Roberts
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Law-Governed Universe
2008, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Table of Contents
The law-governed world-picture
A remarkable idea about the way the universe is cosmos and compulsion
The laws as the cosmic order : the best-system approach
The three ways : no-laws, non-governing-laws, governing-laws
Work that laws do in science
An important difference between the laws of nature and the cosmic order
The picture in four theses
The strategy of this book
The meta-theoretic conception of laws
The measurability approach to laws
What comes where
In defense of some received views
Some assumptions that will be in play
The laws are propositions
The laws are true
The logically contingent consequences of the laws are laws themselves
At least some laws are metaphysically contingent
The meta-theoretic conception of laws
Laws of nature, laws of science, laws of theories
The first-order conception versus the meta-theoretic conception
What is a law of nature?
Some examples of meta-theoretic accounts
The virtues of the meta-theoretic conception
Weighing the virtues and shortcomings of the meta-theoretic conception
An epistemological argument for the meta-theoretic conception of laws
The discoverability thesis, the governing thesis, and the first-order conception
The main argument
The objection from bad company
The objection from inference to the best explanation
The objection from bayesianism
The objection from contextualist epistemology
The objection from the threat of inductive skepticism
Laws, governing, and counterfactuals
Where we are now
What would things have to be like in order for the laws of nature to govern the universe?
Lawhood, inevitability, counterfactuals
What is it for a proposition to be inevitably true?
What is it for a whole class of propositions to be inevitably true?
What is it for lawhood to confer inevitability?
NP and supporting counterfactuals
The worry about context-variability
A solution and a look ahead
When would the laws have been different?
Where we are now
The God cases
Other counterexamples to NP
A moral-theoretic counterexample to NP
Scientific contexts and non-scientific contexts
Scientific God cases?
Lewisian non-backtracking counterexamples
Where things stand now
How could science show that the laws govern?
Why the law-governed world-picture must include the science-says-so thesis
What is extra-scientific?
How can the science-says-so thesis be true?
NP as a consequence of the presuppositions in any scientific context
Np as true in all possible scientific contexts
But how could it be so?
Attack of the actual-factualists
Measurement and counterfactuals
Where we are now
Measurements, reliability, counterfactuals
A general principle that captures the relation between measurement and counterfactuals
What we can learn about lawhood from what we have learned about the counterfactual commitments of science
A first-order account of laws or a meta-theoretic account of laws?
What methods are presupposed to be legitimate measurement procedures?
Why we must adopt a meta-theoretic account of laws
What lawhood is
Where we are now
The measurability account of laws
Brief review of the case for the mal
A note about hedged laws
How plausible is the mal?
What if we don't care about the law-governed world-picture?
Newton's God and Laplace's demon
Beyond humean and non-humean
Two views of laws
Humean supervenience and the meta-theoretic conception
Alleged counterexamples to humean supervenience
Governing and non-trivial necessity
How the mal lets us have it all
Humeanism? non-humeanism?
What is the significance of the idea of the law-governed universe?
Where in the world are the laws of nature?
Appendix: The mal in action : a few examples
Of scientific theories and their laws
Newton's theory as a paradigm example
Classical special-force laws
Geometrical optics and one of its laws
Local deterministic field theories.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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