Laws and Lawmakers Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature

Laws and Lawmakers Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-304

  Lange, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Chance; Counterfactuals; Essentialism; Laws; Laws of nature; Modality; Natural laws; Necessity; Physical necessity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955092387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195328134.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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