Holes, haecceitism and two conceptions of determinism

In this paper I claim that Earman and Norton's hole argument against substa ntivalist interpretations of General Relativity assumes that the substantiv alist must adopt a conception of determinism which I argue is unsatisfactor y. Butterfield and others have responded to the hole argument by finding a conception of determinism open to the substantivalist that is not prone to the hole argument. But, unfortunately for the substantivalist, I argue this conception also turns out to be unsatisfactory. Accordingly, I search for a conception of determinism that is both independently plausible and capabl e of blocking the hole argument.