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"Science without Laws thus stakes out a middle ground in these debates by demonstrating a more powerful way of seeing science."--BOOK JACKET.

A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.

What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the "lawmakers": the facts in virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet

Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws

This book systematically creates a general descriptive theory of scientific change that explains the mechanics of changes in both scientific theories and the me