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Tooley's Theory of Laws of Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Stephen C. Hetherington
Stephen C. Hetherington*
Affiliation:
New College, Oxford
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Extract

This paper contains a discussion of a theory of laws of nature formulated recently by Michael Tooley. He sees the truth-makers for laws of nature as consisting of particular sorts of contingent relations between universals. He is not alone in this idea; it has also been advanced by Fred Dretske and D.M. Armstrong. However, its most thorough and detailed presentation is by Tooley. Being a challenging and stimulating idea, it merits investigation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 101 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 1983

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References

[1] Armstrong, D.M. Chapter 24, Universals and Scientific Realism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1978)Google Scholar
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[3] Tooley, M. ‘The Nature of laws; Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 7 (1977) 667-98Google Scholar