I. Introduction

Friedel Weinert: Laws of Nature - Laws of Science 3

II. Philosophical Views

III. Scientific Views

IV. Historical Views

Normal Schwartz - The Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities 67

Martin Leckey/John Bigelow - The Necessitarian Perspective: Laws as Natural Entailments 92

Ronald Giere - The Skeptical Perspective: Science without Laws of Nature 120

Bryan Skyrms/Karl Lambert - The Middle Ground: Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief 139

Magaret Morrison - The New Aspect: Symmetries as Meta-Laws 157

Allan Franklin: Laws and Experiments 191

Erhard Scheibe - Laws and Theories: Generality versus Coherence 208

Herman Haken: Laws and Chaos 227

Paul Davies: Algorithmic Compressibility, Fundamental and Phenomenological Laws 248

Francisco Ayala: The Distinctness of Biology 268

Jane Ruby: Origins of Scientific "Law" 289

Friedrich Steinle - Algamation of a Concept: Laws of Nature in the New Sciences 316

Peter Galison - Theory Bound and Unbound: Superstrings and Experiments 369

List of Contributors 409

Subject Index 411

Names Index 418