1 Introduction—laws and properties ............................. 1
2 Dispositions ................................................. 9
3 Dispositional essentialism and the laws of nature ........... 43
4 Categoricalism .............................................. 66
5 Dispositional essentialism, modality, and intentionality .... 99
6 The regress objection ...................................... 132
7 Structural properties ...................................... 147
8 The illusion of nomic contingency .......................... 169
9 Are there any laws, and if so what are they? ............... 189
10 Concluding remarks ......................................... 204
References .................................................... 219
Index ......................................................... 226
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