The Philosophy of Laws of Nature

The laws of nature are just generalizations about the way the world happens to be. A lot of philosophers aren't happy with that kind of view, because they think that laws must somehow constrain how things behave. You can think of the laws as being sort of a list of axioms. If we wanted to know everything that has happened and is going to happen in the universe, you could imagine kind of trying to write down every single little thing that happens. That would be a crazily long list. But there's another way of trying to work out what's going on in the universe,. which is to notice these regularities and hypothesize that certain generalizations hold. And then