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Could the Laws of Nature Change?*

Authors :
Marc Lange
Source :
Philosophy of Science. 75:69-92
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008.

Abstract

After reviewing several failed arguments that laws cannot change, I use the laws’ special relation to counterfactuals to show how temporary laws would have to differ from eternal but time-dependent laws. Then I argue that temporary laws are impossible and that neither Lewis's nor Armstrong's analyses of law nicely accounts for the laws’ immutability.

Details

ISSN :
1539767X and 00318248
Volume :
75
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Philosophy of Science
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9f16acd43865cc52d7a43ed148194976
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1086/587823