Review

"This volume is devoted to a systematic defense of the 'regularity' view of physical laws...Overall the book is very well structured. The positions taken and the arguments for them are laid out with clarity. Many very trenchant replies to misguided 'refutations' of regularist views are forcefully and convincingly presented. The book is a welcome contribution to the recurrent debate on the nature of lawlike generality." Lawrence Sklar, The Journal of Philosophy

Book Description

Professor Swartz clearly identifies and analyzes the arguments and intuitions of Necessitarian and Regularity theories of physical law and finds the distinctions between instrumental scientific laws and true physical laws, failure and doom, miracles and marvels, predictability and uniformity, statistical and numerical laws and necessity-in-praxis.