Should we reject supervenience analyses of laws, chance, and causation?

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 27 (4):587-592 (1996)
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Essay review of John Carroll's book, _Laws of Nature_.

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On the Plurality of Worlds.David K. Lewis - 1986 - Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
Counterfactuals.David K. Lewis - 1973 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
Humean Supervenience Debugged.David Lewis - 1994 - Mind 103 (412):473--490.
On the Plurality of Worlds.William G. Lycan - 1988 - Journal of Philosophy 85 (1):42-47.
Laws of nature.Fred I. Dretske - 1977 - Philosophy of Science 44 (2):248-268.

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