"This book ... is the outcome of the second series of the Münster lectures in philosophy which took place at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster during 5-6 May, 1998"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-119).

Preface -- Where laws of nature come from / Nancy Cartwright -- Capacities and laws: two sides of the same coin / Rosemarie Rheinwald -- Why Cartwright's anti-fundamentalist argument fails! / Matthias Paul -- Some questions about constructivist and objectivist elements in Nancy Cartwright's work / Frauke Kurbacher & Silvia Musholt -- The problem of single-case-ascriptions of capacities / Jan Claas Freienstein -- Inference to the most probable cause / Rosemarie Rheinwald -- The invisible lecturer: a dream in Cartwrightian metaphysics? / Niko Storboch -- Is the world really a mess? The circularity objection / Julia Göthling & Matthias Paul -- A messy world? No limit for science! / Ludger Jansen -- Can we predict nature as it comes? / Sabine Pinn -- How the measurement problem is a fact of quantum physics / Christian Suhm -- Cartwright on causality in EPR-correlations: a brief outline / Steffen Geers & Frank Köhler -- Identity of systems, micro-macro-property-relations, suggestions and questions / Marcus Birke -- Comments and replies / Nancy Cartwright -- Publications of Nancy Cartwright -- Notes on contributors.