Rethinking Order After the Laws of Nature

Acknowledgements
Contributors

INTRODUCTION Keith Ward (Heythrop College)

SECTION 1. The Historical and Philosophical Setting
1. The Rise and Fall of Laws of Nature, Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego)
2. The Dethronement of Laws in Science, Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)

SECTION 2. New Modes of Order in the Natural and Social Sciences

3. From Order to Chaos and Back Again, Robert C. Bishop (Wheaton College) and Roman Frigg (London School of Economics)
4. Multiple Orders in Biology, Eric Martin (Baylor University) and William Bechtel (University of California, San Diego)
5. Realism, Pluralism and Naturalism in Biology, John Dupre (University of Exeter)
6. The Making and Maintenance of Social Order, Eleonora Montuschi (University of Venice and London School of Economics) and Rom Harre (London School of Economics)

SECTION 3. Free Will after the Laws of Nature

7. Freedom and the Causal Order, T.J. Mawson (St Peter's College, Oxford University)
8. From Laws to Powers, Steven Horst (Wesleyan University)

SECTION 4. Divine Order

9. Order in the Relations between Religion and Science? Reflections on the NOMA Principle of Stephen J. Gould, John Hedley Brooke (University of Durham)
10. Concepts of God and the Order of Nature, Keith Ward (Heythrop College)
11. From Order to God, Russell ReManning (University of Aberdeen)

CONCLUSION Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)

Index