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The strong arm of the law : a unified account of necessary and contingent laws of nature

Hirèche, Salim ; Linnemann, Niels ; Michels, Robert ; Vogt, Lisa

In: Synthese, 2021, no. 199, p. 10211–10252

A common feature of all standard theories of the laws of nature is that they are ‘absolutist’: They take laws to be either all metaphysically necessary or all contingent. Science, however, gives us reason to think that there are laws of both kinds, suggesting that standard theories should make way for ‘non-absolutist’ alternatives: theories which accommodate laws of both modal statuses....

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Overall similarity, natural properties, and paraphrases

Guigon, Ghislain

In: Philosophical Studies, 2014, vol. 167, no. 2, p. 387-399

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Entities Without Intrinsic Physical Identity

Lam, Vincent

In: Erkenntnis, 2014, vol. 79, no. 5, p. 1157-1171

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Formalization and the Objects of Logic

Brun, Georg

In: Erkenntnis, 2008, vol. 69, no. 1, p. 1-30

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Non-realism: Deep Thought or a Soft Option?

Gisin, Nicolas

In: Foundations of Physics, 2012, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 80-85

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The Structural Metaphysics of Quantum Theory and General Relativity

Lam, Vincent ; Esfeld, Michael

In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2012, vol. 43, no. 2, p. 243-258

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Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Metaphysics of Entanglement

Egg, Matthias

In: Foundations of Physics, 2013, vol. 43, no. 9, p. 1124-1135

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Ontic structural realism and the interpretation of quantum mechanics

Esfeld, Michael

In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2013, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 19-32