Walter Ott is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (Oxford, 2017), Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford) and Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge). His work has appeared in such journals as the Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Lydia Patton is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. She edited Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader (Routledge), and co-edited, with Benjamin Jantzen and Deborah Mayo, the issue "Ontology and Methodology" (Synthese). Her work has appeared in Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Kant-Studien, and Historia Mathematica, among others, and in The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. In 2017, she will become editor-in-chief of HOPOS.

Angela Breitenbach, University of Cambridge
John Carroll, North Carolina State University
Nancy Cartwright, University of Durham and University of California, San Diego
Mary Domski, University of New Mexico
Helen Hattab, University of Houston
Marc Lange, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Michela Massimi, University of Edinburgh
Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham
Pedro Merlussi, Durham University
Walter Ott, University of Virginia
Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech
Stathis Psillos, University of Western Ontario
James Woodward, University of Pittsburgh

"The book manifests a wide diversity of viewpoints and approaches. The articles themselves are timely and of a consistently very high quality, which speaks to the virtues of Ott and Patton's editorial work, and the book can truly be said to have something for everyone who is interested in laws of nature." -- Jason Winning, Metascience

"Ott and Patton ... have assembled a diverse group of scholars to examine the origins and status of the modern scientific concept of natural law ... clearly written ... Highly recommended." -- C. D. Kay, CHOICE