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Could the Laws of Nature Change?*
- Source :
- Philosophy of Science. 75:69-92
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008.
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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