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In Laws and Lawmakers: Science Metaphysics and the laws of nature, Mark Lang has presented an engagingly written, tightly argued, and novel philosophical account of the laws of nature. One of the intuitions behind the notion of a law of nature is, roughly, that of the many regularities we observe in the world there are some which appear to be due to mere happen-stance(“accidental” regularities, in the philosopher’s jargon)while others, which we call “laws,” seem to be possessed of a degree of necessity. although many philosophers, and certainly most scientists, will readily agree that there is a difference between logical, law-like, and accidental regularities, spelling out the nature of...