Part I: Appreciating and Burnishing the PastChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. C.Hempel: In the beginning ....Chapter 3. Laws and their corresponding counterfactuals; an untenable connectionChapter 4. F.Dretske's Total rejection of the Hempel model. Universals and Magnitudes to the rescueChapter 5. Prelude to D.Armstrong: A mathematical movement which inspired Ramsey, and left Russell and Armstrong unmovedChapter 6. D.Armstrong's account of laws. Identity lost, regained, and lost again
Part II: The Relatvization of Laws to Theoretical scenarios, Schematic Theories and Physical and Nomic modalsChapter 7. Laws and Accidental Generalizations. A new, minimal theory of the differenceChapter 8. E.Nagel and R.B.Braithwaite. Two neglected radical and radically different theories: one inspired by Hilbert, the other by RamseyChapter 9. D.Hilbert's Architectural structuralism, and Schematic TheoriesChapter 10. Theories, their magnitude spaces, and the physical possibilities they provideChapter 11. Theories, laws, and nomic possibilities (modals)Chapter 12. Schematic theories, subsumtion of laws, and non-accidental generalizations
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