In the section on laws of nature Psillos considers both the regularity view oflaws and laws as relations among universals as well as alternative approachesto la... » 

In the section on laws of nature Psillos considers both the regularity view oflaws and laws as relations among universals as well as alternative approachesto laws. In the final section on explanation he examines in detail the issuesarising from deductivenomological explanation and statistical explanationbefore considering the explanation of laws and the metaphysics of explanation.Accessible to students of all levels the author provides an excellentintroduction to one of the most enduring problems of philosophy. «