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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What Is a Law of Physics?
Lewis: Changing the laws of physics, even temporarily, just seems bad to me. He says physicists have made a lot more progress than philosophers on what laws are. Descartes had an idea about what he thought laws were and it might surprise many current physicists. Lewis: Newton literally says, or one of his henchmen says, that what laws are are gods with volitions.
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