Abstract
Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction H. Sankey. Part I: The Problem of Laws of Nature. Making Sense of Laws of Physics A. Chalmers. Part II: Scientific Essentialism. Causal Powers and Laws of Nature B. Ellis. Comment on Ellis D. Armstrong. Reply to Armstrong B. Ellis. Scientific Ellisianism J. Bigelow. Bigelow's Worries about Essentialism B. Ellis. The Leckey-Bigelow View M. Leckey. Comment on The Leckey-Bigelow View C. Lierse. Part III: Laws, Quantities and Dispositions. Finkish Dispositions D. Lewis. Comment on Lewis B. Taylor. Laws and Cosmology J. Smart. Comment on Smart D. Armstrong. Disjunctive Laws A. Baker. Laws of Nature as Relations between Quantities J. Forge. Real Law in Perice's `Pragmaticism' (Or: How Scholastic Realism Met the Scientific Method) C. Legg. The Open Door: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation D. Armstrong. Causal Dependence and Chance Laws J. Clendinnen. Causation is the Transfer of Information J. Collier. Good Connections: Causation, Identity through Time and Conserved Quantities P. Dowe. Probabilistic Causal Structure K. Korb. Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Conceptions of Causation P. Menzies. The Role of History in Microphysics H. Price. Comment on Price K. Hutchison.
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