Laws of Nature

Laws of nature and the reality of the wave function

Dorato, M. (2015) · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · Cited by 6

From Physical to Metaphysical Necessity

Roberts, A. (2021) · Mind · doi:10.1093/mind/fzab032 · Cited by 6

How to activate a power

McKitrick, J. (2013) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674527.003.0006 · Cited by 6

Can bare dispositions explain categorical regularities?

Hildebrand, T. (2013) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-013-0113-y · Cited by 6

Must the Fundamental Laws of Physics be Complete?

Lange, M. (2009) · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2009.00246.x · Cited by 6

The strong arm of the law: a unified account of necessary and contingent laws of nature

Hirèche, S., Linnemann, N., Michels, R., & Vogt, L. (2021) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03243-z · Cited by 5

An Empirical Argument for Presentism

Builes, D., & Impagnatiello, M. O. (2025) · doi:10.1093/9780198952763.003.0003 · Cited by 5

Indeterminacy in Causation

Swanson, E. (2016) · The Philosophical Quarterly · doi:10.1093/pq/pqw068 · Cited by 5

An Empiricist View on Laws, Quantities and Physical Necessity

Johansson, L. (2019) · Theoria · doi:10.1111/theo.12176 · Cited by 5

What Humeans should say about tied best systems

Loew, C., & Jaag, S. (2019) · Analysis · doi:10.1093/analys/anz047 · Cited by 5

A causal Bayes net analysis of dispositions

Gebharter, A., & Fischer, F. (2019) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02374-8 · Cited by 5

Functionalism, superduperfunctionalism, and physicalism: lessons from supervenience

Endicott, R. P. (2015) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0839-5 · Cited by 5

Le trou noir de la causalité

Schaffer, J., Kistler, M., & Brabanter, P. D. (2006) · Philosophie · doi:10.3917/philo.089.0040 · Cited by 5

In defence of causal bases

Hauska, J. (2008) · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1080/00048400701846509 · Cited by 5

Where No Mind Has Gone Before: Exploring Laws in Distant and Lonely Worlds

Haufe, C., & Slater, M. H. (2009) · International Studies in the Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1080/02698590903196049 · Cited by 5

Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science

Allchin, D. (2025) · doi:10.1093/9780197827703.001.0001 · Cited by 4

Turning up the volume on the property view of sound

Roberts, P. (2016) · Inquiry · doi:10.1080/0020174x.2016.1159979 · Cited by 4

Fine-Tuned of Necessity?

Page, B. (2018) · Res Philosophica · doi:10.11612/resphil.1659 · Cited by 4

The laws of modality

Tugby, M. (2022) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-022-01789-3 · Cited by 4

Laws of nature and the reality of the wave function

Dorato, M. (2015) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0696-2 · Cited by 6

NATURAL LAWS AND DIVINE INTERVENTION: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES BEING PENTECOSTAL OR CHARISMATIC MAKE?

Yong, A. (2008) · Zygon® · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00971.x · Cited by 4

Individuation and explanation: a problem for dispositionalism

Hildebrand, T. (2020) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-019-01412-y · Cited by 4

Kuhnian paradigms as representational spaces: New perspectives on the problems of incommensurability, scientific explanation, and physical necessity

Hung, E. H.-C. (2001) · International Studies in the Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1080/02698590120080217 · Cited by 4

A puzzle about laws and explanation

Jaag, S. (2021) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03061-3 · Cited by 4

Typicality of Dynamics and Laws of Nature

Filomeno, A. (2023) · Synthese Library/Synthese library · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32375-1_15 · Cited by 5

The Problem of Possibilia

Fine, K. (2005) · doi:10.1093/0199278709.003.0007 · Cited by 4

Ideal Laws, Counterfactual Preservation, and the Analyses of Lawhood

Tan, P. (2019) · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1080/00048402.2019.1638950 · Cited by 4

Measurability And Physical Laws

Roberts, J. T. (2005) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-005-5875-0 · Cited by 4

What motivates humeanism?

Bhogal, H. K. (2024) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-024-02238-z · Cited by 3

The ethics of empty worlds

SORENSEN, R. A. (2005) · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1080/00048400500191933 · Cited by 3

Contemporary Approaches to Statistical Mechanical Probabilities: A Critical Commentary – Part II: The Regularity Approach

Meacham, C. J. G. (2010) · Philosophy Compass · doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00362.x · Cited by 3

The Range Conception of Probability and the Input Problem

Roberts, J. T. (2016) · Journal for General Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1007/s10838-015-9318-4 · Cited by 3

Revisiting McKay and Johnson's counterexample to (β)

Merlussi, P. (2022) · Philosophical Explorations · doi:10.1080/13869795.2022.2034917 · Cited by 3

Causation and Laws of Nature

Dainton, B. (2009) · doi:10.1002/9781444315837.ch14 · Cited by 3

Quantum Powers and Primitive Ontology

Simpson, W. M. (2025) · Philosophy Compass · doi:10.1111/phc3.70050 · Cited by 2

Introduction and Preview

Woodward, J. (2004) · doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0001 · Cited by 2

The Legal Doctrines of Intervening Causation

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0011 · Cited by 2

Chance and Necessity

Spohn, W. (2010) · Boston studies in the philosophy of science · doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3615-5_5 · Cited by 3

Counterfactuals and laws with violations

Gibbs, C. (2020) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02740-x · Cited by 2

„Unrealistische Annahmen“ und empirische Prüfung

Albert, M. (1996) · Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch · doi:10.3790/schm.116.3.451 · Cited by 2

The value of laws in chemistry

Seifert, V. A. (2024) · Foundations of Chemistry · doi:10.1007/s10698-024-09523-z · Cited by 2

The Ideology of Pragmatic Humeanism

Hildebrand, T. (2024) · Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.3998/ergo.6914 · Cited by 2

Accept no substitutes: Against best-system theories without naturalness

Sider, T. (2025) · Philosophers Imprint · doi:10.3998/phimp.7010 · Cited by 2

Determinism, Physical Possibility, and Laws of Nature

Gyenis, B. (2020) · Foundations of Physics · doi:10.1007/s10701-020-00320-0 · Cited by 2

In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws

McKenzie, K. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04382-1_4 · Cited by 2

Laws, the Inference Problem, and Uninstantiated Universals

Rives, B. (2014) · The Southern Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1111/sjp.12087 · Cited by 2

Humean supervenience and best-system laws

Jaeger, L. (2002) · International Studies in the Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1080/02698590220145089 · Cited by 2

Could Everything Be True? Probably Not

Plebani, M. (2015) · Philosophia · doi:10.1007/s11406-015-9584-8 · Cited by 2

Measurements, laws, and counterfactuals

Roberts, J. T. (2013) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674527.003.0002 · Cited by 2

The Superfluity of Accomplice Liability

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0013 · Cited by 2

Dis-positioning Euthyphro

Page, B. (2018) · International Journal for Philosophy of Religion · doi:10.1007/s11153-017-9632-3 · Cited by 2

Emergentism and the Contingent Solubility of Salt

Chan, L. (2018) · Theoria · doi:10.1111/theo.12160 · Cited by 2

World enough and form: why cosmology needs hylomorphism

Brungardt, J. G. (2019) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02112-0 · Cited by 2

Laws, melodies, and the paradox of predictability

Dorst, C. (2022) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03595-0 · Cited by 2

The Consequence Argument and an Ontology of Dispositions

Dorato, M. (2022) · Synthese Library/Synthese library · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-92486-7_12 · Cited by 2

In between impossible worlds

Sendłak, M. (2024) · Inquiry · doi:10.1080/0020174x.2024.2338807 · Cited by 2

Regularity theories disconfirmed: a revamped argument and a wager

Cronin, P. (2016) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1177-y · Cited by 1

Invariance

Woodward, J. (2004) · doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0006 · Cited by 1

5 Plantinga on the Reduction of Possibilist Discourse

Fine, K. (2005) · doi:10.1093/0199278709.003.0006 · Cited by 1

Explanation Good, Grounding Bad

Daly, C. J. (2023) · The Monist · doi:10.1093/monist/onad011 · Cited by 1

From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

Stamatiadis‐Bréhier, A. (2025) · Analytic Philosophy · doi:10.1111/phib.12378 · Cited by 1

Temporal Ontology and Non-Markovian Quantum Dynamics

Ryoo, H. J. (2026) · Philosophies · doi:10.3390/philosophies11020045 · Cited by 1

Human Agency, Realism and the New Essentialism

Ellis, B. (2002) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-2862-1_10 · Cited by 1

Realism about structure and kinds

Paul, L. A. (2013) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674527.003.0009 · Cited by 1

10 Review of Counterfactuals by David Lewis

Fine, K. (2005) · doi:10.1093/0199278709.003.0011 · Cited by 1

Causal Explanation: Background and Criticism

Woodward, J. (2004) · doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0004 · Cited by 1

“Purple Haze, All Around” Consciousness and Cognition

Levine, J. (2001) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/0195132351.003.0007 · Cited by 1

Causal Interpretation in Structural Models

Woodward, J. (2004) · doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0007 · Cited by 1

Non-Humean Laws and Scientific Practice

Smithson, R. (2020) · Erkenntnis · doi:10.1007/s10670-020-00330-4 · Cited by 1

A reductive analysis of statements about universals

White, B. (2022) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03573-6 · Cited by 1

Incompatibilism

Clarke, R. (2003) · doi:10.1093/019515987x.003.0001 · Cited by 1

Grounding and properties

Faller, A. (2022) · Inquiry · doi:10.1080/0020174x.2022.2107064 · Cited by 1

Dispositional essentialism and the necessity of laws: a deflationary account

Sidelle, A. (2023) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-023-01967-x · Cited by 1

Are All Laws of Nature Created Equal? Meta-laws Versus More Necessary Laws

Hirèche, S., Linnemann, N., & Michels, R. (2023) · Erkenntnis · doi:10.1007/s10670-023-00739-7 · Cited by 1

How (Not) To Be a Humean Structuralist

McKenzie, K. (2013) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01306-0_25 · Cited by 1

The Role of Counterfactual Dependence as an Independent, Non-causal Desert-determiner

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0018 · Cited by 1

The space of possibilities of dispositional essentialism

Lanao, X. (2017) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-017-0983-5 · Cited by 1

How (not) to judge a theory of causation

Gijsbers, V. (2020) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02927-2 · Cited by 1

Revaluing Laws of Nature in Secularized Science

Lichtenstein, E. I. (2022) · Jerusalem studies in philosophy and history of science · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96775-8_13 · Cited by 1

Typicality and the Metaphysics of Laws

Lazarovici, D. (2023) · New directions in the philosophy of science · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-33448-1_16 · Cited by 1

Laws of Nature

Jaeger, L. (2012) · doi:10.1002/9781118241455.ch39 · Cited by 1

Ontological relativity and meaning‐variance: A critical‐constructive review

Norris, C. (1997) · Inquiry · doi:10.1080/00201749708602444 · Cited by 1

Earman and Roberts on Empiricism about Laws

Skow, B. (2007) · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00065.x · Cited by 1

DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM: ALIVE AND WELL

Anderson, E. A. (1997) · Philosophical Papers · doi:10.1080/05568649709506564 · Cited by 1

Singularist Theories of Causation

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0020 · Cited by 1

Introduction

Fine, K. (2005) · doi:10.1093/0199278709.003.0001 · Cited by 1

Are the Laws of Nature Deductively Closed?

Baker, A. (1999) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1_9

Briggs on antirealist accounts of scientific law

Halpin, J. (2012) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-012-0202-z

Reply to Skow

ROBERTS, J. T. (2007) · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00066.x

Laws without possibility?

Bunzl, M. (2004) · Philosophia · doi:10.1007/bf02385196

Causes and Categories

Stein, N. (2014) · Noûs · doi:10.1111/nous.12083

“Lately Things Don't Seem the Same” The Conceivability Argument

Levine, J. (2001) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/0195132351.003.0003

Pruning the Law's Demands on a Concept of Causation

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0006

Causation and Moral Blameworthiness

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0002

11 Review ofThe Nature of Necessityby Alvin Plantinga

Fine, K. (2005) · doi:10.1093/0199278709.003.0012

The Lack of any Metaphysical Basis for the Doctrines of Intervening Causation

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0012

Interventions, Agency, and Counterfactuals

Woodward, J. (2004) · doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0003

The Counterfactual Theory of Causation

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0017

Conceptual Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the-Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0008

The Facts, Events, States of Affairs, and Tropes Debate

Moore, M. S. (2009) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256860.003.0015

Causation and Laws of Nature

Sankey, H. (1999) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1 · Cited by 105

Educação experiencial: um método de pesquisa vinculado à realidade social

Alles, M. C. (1982) · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · doi:10.5007/%x

Causation and laws of nature - Introduction

Sankey, H. (1999)

Causes and Laws: Philosophical Aspects

Beebee, H. (2015) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.63007-6 · Cited by 1

Scientific Laws

Johansson, L. (2015) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26551-3_10