Ideal Laws, Counterfactual Preservation, and the Analyses of Lawhood

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (3):574-589 (2019)
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This paper presents a unified argument against three widely held contemporary analyses of lawhood—Humean reductionism about laws, the dispositionalist view of laws, and the view of laws as relation...

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