Sartenaer, Olivier and Guay, Alexandre and Humphreys, Paul (2020) What Price Changing Laws of Nature? [Preprint]

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that it is not a conceptual truth about laws of nature that they are
immutable (though we are happy to leave it as an open empirical question whether they do
actually change once in a while). In order to do so, we survey three popular accounts of lawhood
—(Armstrong-style) necessitarianism, (Bird-style) dispositionalism and (Lewis-style) ‘best system
analysis’—and expose the extent, as well as the philosophical cost, of the amendments that
should be enforced in order to leave room for the possibility of changing laws.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Sartenaer, Olivier olivier.sartenaer@uclouvain.be Guay, Alexandre alexandre.guay@uclouvain.ne Humphreys, Paul pwh2a@virginia.edu
Additional Information:	Forthcoming in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Subjects:	General Issues > Laws of Nature
Depositing User:	Alexandre Guay
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2020 22:56
Last Modified:	21 Sep 2020 22:56
Item ID:	18127
Subjects:	General Issues > Laws of Nature
Date:	21 September 2020
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18127

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