Abstract The Great Divide in metaphysical debates about laws of nature is between
Humeans, who think that laws merely describe the distribution of matter, and non-Humeans …

This paper develops an account of the metaphysics of fundamental laws I call “the Package
Deal Account (PDA)” that is a descendent of Lewis' BSA but differs from it in a number of …

If the Past Hypothesis underlies the arrows of time, what is the status of the Past Hypothesis?
In this paper, I examine the role of the Past Hypothesis in the Boltzmannian account and …

If there are fundamental laws of nature, can they fail to be exact? In this paper, I consider the
possibility that some fundamental laws are vague. I call this phenomenon fundamental …

Abstract Barry Loewer and David Albert put forward a theory that they call “The Mentaculus”,
which they claim to be “arguably a complete scientific theory of the universe”. Albert and …

Hay diversas razones por las que el debate en torno a la noción de ley de la naturaleza
ocupa un lugar central en la metafísica de la ciencia contemporánea. Además, quienes …

For Humeans, all facts about the world supervene on a global mosaic of local qualities, the
distribution of fundamental intrinsic, categorical properties arrayed in spacetime. It follows …

For Humeans, many facts—even ones intuitively “about” particular, localized macroscopic
parts of the world—turn out to depend on surprisingly global fundamental bases. We …

This thesis investigates one version of Best System Accounts (BSA) of laws of nature:
relativized BSA. I argue that relativized BSA, unlike its proponents claim, is an anti-realist …