On Powers BSAs

Can the desire for efficiently systematised theories in science be explained from within a powers metaphysics? It is plausible that the traditional `Powers Theory of Laws' endorsed by many friends of powers does not alone provide such explanation. This has led a number of recent authors to argue that a `Powers Best System Account' of laws would be a preferable alternative. This strategy borrows a method for determining laws from the Humean and applies it to a reality of powers. Here I claim, to the contrary, that this strategy is both internally unworkable and anyway completely undermotivated when compared with the traditional view. Apart from some brief suggestions for alternative strategies, I'll conclude that the powers theorist still has their work cut out to explain systematising in science.