| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jonathan D. Jacobs -- Causal powers: why Humeans can't even be instrumentalists / Nancy Cartwright -- Saving the scientific phenomena: what powers can and cannot do / Anjan Chakravartty -- Powerful properties, powerless laws / Heather Demarest -- Aristotelian powers at work: reciprocity without symmetry in causation / Anna Marmodoror -- Mutual manifestation and Martin's two triangles / Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford -- Real modalities / John Heil -- Nine problems (and even more solutions) for powers accounts of possibility / Timothy Pawl -- Manifesting time and space: background-free physical theories / Alexander Bird -- Powerful perdurance: linking parts with powers / Neil E. Williams -- Conflicts of desire: dispositions and the metaphysics of mind / Lauren Ashwell -- Colors and appearances as powers and manifestations / Max Kistler -- Must functionalists be Aristotelians? / Robert C. Koons and Alexander Pruss -- Power for the mental as such / David Robb |
| Summary |
We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Causation.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Causation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192516596 |
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0192516590 |
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9780191837838 |
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0191837830 |
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