Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature

Yemima Ben-Menahem of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a philosopher of science, specializing in the philosophy of physics. She is author of Conventionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Causation in Science (Princeton University Press, 2018. She edited Hilary Putnam (Cambridge University Press (2005) and coedited (with Meir Hemmo) Probability in Physics (Springer, 2012)

• Chapter 1. (Introduction) "Why Rethinking is required"(Yemima Ben-Menahem).- Chapter 2. "On Two Slights to Noether's Theorem" (J. Brian Pitts).- Chapter 3. "How To Make the World Safe for Autonomy, or: How to Fodor-Kitcher an Albert-Loewer"(Marc Lange).- Chapter 4. "Models as Ersatz Law."(Arnon Levy).- Chapter 5. TBA (Orly Shenker).- Chapter 6. "Laws of Nature as Epistemic Infrastructure, Not as Metaphysical Superstructure" (Richard Healey).- Chapter 7. "Making Modality Safe for Empiricists" (John D. Norton).- Chapter 8. "Wheeler's Law Without Law and other Forms of Lawlessness" (Yemima Ben-Menahem).- Chapter 9. "Ratbag Idealism"(Gordon Belot).- Chapter 10. "Relational Mechanics and a Large Kantian Component of Laws of Nature"(Sheldin Goldstein and Nino Zanghì).- Chapter 11. "Minimal Primitivism About Laws of Nature" (Sheldon Goldstein and Eddy Chen).