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Preface; Chapter 1: Laws Form Counterfactually Stable Sets; 1: Welcome; 2: Their necessity sets the laws apart; 3: The laws’s persistence under counterfactuals; 4: Nomic preservation; 5: Beyond nomic preservation; 6: A host of related problems: triviality, circularity, arbitrariness; 7: Sub-nomic stability; 8: No nonmaximal set containing accidents possesses sub-nomic stability; 9: How two sub-nomically stable sets must be related: multiple strata of natural laws; 10: Why the laws would still have been laws; 11: Conclusion: laws form stable sets; Chapter 2: Natural Necessity; 1: Our goal in this chapter; 2: The Euthyphro question; 3: David Lewis’s \"Best-System Account\"; 4: Lewis’s account and the laws’s supervenience; 5: The Euthyphro question returns; 6: Are all relative necessities created equal?; 7: The modality principle; 8: A proposal for distinguishing genuine from merely relative modalities; 9: Borrowing a strategy from Chapter 1; 10: Necessity as maximal invariance; 11: The laws form a system; 12: Scientific essentialism squashes the pyramid; 13: Why there is a natural ordering of the genuine modalities; 14: Conclusion: stability, as maximal invariance, involves necessity; Chapter 4: A World of Subjunctives; 1: What if the lawmakers were subjunctive facts?; 2: The lawmakers’s regress; 3: Stability; 4: Avoiding adhocery; 5: nstantaneous rates of change and the causal explanation problem; 6: Et in Arcadia ego; 7: The rule of law; 8: Why the laws must be complete; 9: Envoi: Am I cheating?

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