| Description |
1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Series |
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Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Note -- Part I: Parts of Powers -- Chapter 1: Carving Up the Network of Powers -- Characterising the Network -- Graphs and Constraints -- Labelled Transition Systems -- Untriggered Powers -- Reciprocal Powers -- Identity Conditions -- Subcollections -- Subsets -- Subgraphs -- Disjunctive Powers? -- Mereology -- Substructures -- Mereology? -- Parts Twice Over? -- Disconnected Wholes -- Clustering -- Mereology -- Weights -- Losing Connections -- Coordinating |
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Preliminaries -- Weak and Strong Components -- Mereology -- Bisimulation -- Moving Forward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Parts and Grounds of Powers: A Logic and Ground-Theoretic Mereology for Power Ontologies -- A Mereology of Facts via Grounding -- A Minimalist Power Ontology -- The Semantics and Logic of the Simple Power Conditionals -- Beyond the Minimal Model: Conflicting and Stochastic Powers -- The Metaphysics of Conflicting Powers -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Complex Powers: Making Many One -- What Are Complex Powers? -- Modelling Methodologies for Modal Complexities |
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Mereological Analyses: Making Many One -- Composition Criterion: Essence -- Composition Criterion: Emergence -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Powers as Mereological Lawmakers -- Powers, Parts and Locations -- The Decline of Topic Neutrality and Analyticity -- Merging Mereology with a Theory of Powers -- Contingentism and Necessitism for Laws, Natural and Mereological -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Determinable Dispositions -- Clarifying Way-Non-Specificity -- An Argument for Determinable Dispositions -- Another Argument -- Lessons -- Notes -- References |
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Part II: Composition of Powers -- Chapter 6: What There Is and What There Could Be: Mereology, Causality, and Possibility in an Ontology of Powers -- What are Powers? -- When are Powers Parts of Powers? -- Where are Powers and their Parts? -- Direct Composition of Powers -- Objections to the Realisation Account of Direct Composition -- Indirect Part-whole Relations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: What Can Causal Powers Do for Interventionism?: The Problem of Logically Complex Causes -- Introduction -- The Interventionist Theory of Causation -- The Problem of Disjunctive Causes |
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Logically Complex Variables: A New Field of Work for Powers? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Collective Powers -- Powers and Higher-level Properties -- Scepticism about Composite Substances and Higher-level Powers -- Higher-level Powers as Collective Properties: the Case for Plural Instantiation -- Collective Powers and their Grounding -- Some Objections and Replies -- Some Remaining Issues: Causal Exclusion and the Metaphysical Source of Grounding -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: The Special Power-Composition Question and the Powerful Cosmos |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Special Power-Composition Question |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marmodoro, Anna
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Roselli, Andrea
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| ISBN |
9781000931112 |
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1000931110 |
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