@article{ergo 2265, author = {Christopher J. Meacham}, title = {The Nomic Likelihood Account of Laws}, volume = {9}, year = {2023}, url = {https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/2265/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.3998/ergo.2265}, abstract = {An adequate account of laws should satisfy at least five desiderata: it should provide a unified account of laws and chances, it should yield plausible relations between laws and chances, it should vindicate numerical chance assignments, it should accommodate dynamical and non-dynamical chances, and it should accommodate a plausible range of nomic possibilities. No extant account of laws satisfies these desiderata. This paper presents a non-Humean account of laws, the <i>Nomic Likelihood Account</i>, that does.}, month = {3}, issn = {2330-4014}, publisher={Michigan Publishing Services}, journal = {Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy} }