The Concept of Physical Law, Copyright © Norman Swartz, 2003     If you download this book, chapter by chapter, you may want to save this file ( mainmenu.htm ) to the same directory in which you store the chapter files. It will allow you to navigate more easily among them, especially if you are using the Index and want to find the chapter in which a specific page occurs. 1.    Legal notice Contents Preface (1985) Preface (2003) ‘Near’ laws and ‘real’ laws chap01.pdf  (78,578 bytes) pp. i – viii pp. 1 – 13 2.    Falling under a physical law chap02.pdf (101,539 bytes) pp. 14 – 36 3.    Three theories of physical law chap03.pdf  (30,979 bytes) pp. 37 – 43 4.    Modal properties and modal propositions; relative and absolute necessity chap04.pdf  (27,188 bytes) pp. 44 – 49 5.    Regularity attacked / Necessitarianism defended chap05.pdf  (51,547 bytes) pp. 50 – 61 6.    Failure versus doom chap06.pdf  (72,118 bytes) pp. 62 – 78 7.    State-descriptions and reductions chap07.pdf  (56,278 bytes) pp. 79 – 90 8.    Potentialities chap08.pdf  (57,792 bytes) pp. 91 – 104 9.    Miracles and marvels chap09.pdf  (41,369 bytes) pp. 105 – 115 10.    Free will and determinism chap10.pdf (100,652 bytes) pp. 116 – 140 11.    Predictability and uniformity chap11.pdf (116,529 bytes) pp. 141 – 168 12.    Statistical laws chap12.pdf  (67,748 bytes) pp. 169 – 185 13.    Counterfactuals, numerical laws, and necessity-in-praxis Postscript: cosmic coincidences References Index chap13.pdf (133,814 bytes) pp. 186 – 220