Humean Laws: Stability, Undermining, and Context

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I respond to some challenges to Humean laws deriving from the claimed non-resilience of such laws under counterfactual assumptions.

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The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature.Helen Beebee - 2000 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (3):571-594.

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