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Initial Conditions and the ‘Open Systems’ Argument against Laws of Nature
Determinism Laws of nature Open systems Cartwright Quantum Decoherence
2011/9/6
This article attacks “open systems” arguments that because constant conjunctions are not generally observed in the real world of open systems we should be highly skeptical that universal laws exist. T...
Some Laws of Nature are Metaphysically Contingent
Laws of nature essentialism scientific essentialism counterfactuals
2009/9/17
Laws of nature are puzzling because they have a ‘modal character’—they seem to be ‘necessary-ish’—even though they also seem to be metaphysically contingent. And it is hard to understand how contingen...
Newtonian Emanation, Spinozism, Measurement, and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature
Newton, Bacon, Spinoza, emanation, formal causation, laws of nature, measurement
2011/9/8
This paper investigates what Newton could have meant in a now famous passage from De Gravitatione (hereafter “DeGrav”) that “space is as it were an emanative effect of God” (21). First I offer a caref...