@article{1a9a2faa61ab4794abf31b5f6e2f7cd4,
title = "What Price Changing Laws of Nature?",
abstract = "In this paper, we show that it is not a conceptual truth about laws of nature that they are immutable (though we are happy to leave it as an open empirical question whether they do actually change once in a while). In order to do so, we survey three popular accounts of lawhood—(Armstrong-style) necessitarianism, (Bird-style) dispositionalism and (Lewis-style) {\textquoteleft}best system analysis{\textquoteright}—and expose the extent, as well as the philosophical cost, of the amendments that should be enforced in order to leave room for the possibility of changing laws.",
keywords = "Change in law, Dispositionalism, Humeanism, Law of nature, Necessitarianism",
author = "Olivier Sartenaer and Alexandre Guay and Paul Humphreys",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank Michael Hicks, Vera Hoffmann-Kolss, Andreas H{\"u}ttemann and Christian Loew for helpful comments and/or discussions on earlier versions of (parts of) this paper, as well as the audiences of the K{\"o}ln Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie , the Third International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP) and the Francqui Chair lectures at KU Leuven, where parts of this paper have been presented. Olivier Sartenaer gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Paul Humphreys would like to acknowledge a 3 Cavaliers grant from the University of Virginia. Funding Information: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship (Olivier Sartenaer) 3 Cavaliers grant (University of Virginia; Paul Humphreys). Acknowledgments Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature B.V.",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1007/s13194-020-00327-4",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
journal = "European Journal for Philosophy of Science",
issn = "1879-4912",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}