The Law-Governed Universe

ISBN: 9780199655939 出版年：2009 页码：420 Roberts, John T Oxford University Press

1. The law-governed world-picture 2. In defense of some received views 3. The meta-theoretic conception of laws 4. An epistemological argument for the meta-theoretic conception of laws 5. Laws, governing, and counterfactuals 6. When would the laws have been different? 7. How could science show that the laws govern? 8. Measurement and counterfactuals 9. What lawhood is 10. Beyond Humean and Non-Humean Appendix: The MAL in action: A few examples of scientific theories and their laws