Laws of nature- what are they?

Standard Humean/ regularity views

Best system views

Necessitarian views

Lewis himself

Dretske

Cartwright

(something about mechanisms and whether laws are actually central to science)

Ayer I think is a more refined version of this

Hume himself of course

Humean supervenience seems to be a term employed here- understand this

Finally, what the lecture schedule refers to as the pragmatic turn. Maybe laws are just whatever's useful.

Haslanger- the normative analysis of concepts

(like in terms of helping us live and make sense of our environment)

Cohen-Callender

Armstrong

attempts to replace laws with mechanisms, and other non-law alternatives, for the areas in which they are useful e.g. scientific practice and explanation

I have to say here though that these don't really seem to be laws of nature any more but rather an account of how scientific laws differ from non-laws. But they don't describe something that exists independently of us and they don't describe something that is fundamentally a view of how nature works independent of our concerns

more Cartwright

the problem of ceteris paribus laws

Mitchell- laws in biology as different

(Epistemic regularity= regularity+ our attitude?)

(non-reductionist views such as powers)