NEW WORK FOR COUNTERPART THEORISTS - DETERMINISM

Recently Carolyn Brighouse and Jeremy Butterfield have argued that Dav id Lewis's counterpart theory makes it possible both to believe in the reality of spacetime points and to consider general relativity to be a deterministic theory, thus avoiding the 'hole argument' of John Earm an and John Norton. Butterfield's argument relies on Lewis's own count erpart-theoretic analysis of determinism. In this paper, I argue that this analysis is inadequate. This leaves a gap in the Butterfield-Brig house defence against the hole argument.