Dispositions and Causal Powers
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Author_Bruno Gnassounou
Bohmian Mechanics
categorical
Categorical Properties
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causal explanation philosophy
Causal Powers
ceteris
Ceteris Paribus
Ceteris Paribus Clause
Ceteris Paribus Laws
clause
Collected Philosophical Papers
conditional analysis
Conditional Possibility
Disposition Predicate
dispositional
Dispositional Essentialism
Dispositional Predicates
Dispositional Properties
Dormitive Virtue
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Humean Supervenience
law
Macroscopic Dispositional
macroscopic efficacy
metaphysical analysis of dispositions
metaphysics of properties
Occurrent Properties
paribus
philosophical
predicates
properties
quantum ontology
Quantum System
Quantum World
scientific realism debate
Subvenient Base
Thermal Dispositions
Unmanifested Dispositions
Vice Versa
Virtus Dormitiva
Window Breaking
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- ISBN 9781138275744
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the power to corrode metals. All these statements express attributions of dispositions, be they physical, physiological or psychological, yet there is much philosophical debate about how far, if at all, dispositional predicates can have complete meaning or figure in causal explanations. This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examine the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.
Max Kistler is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University Paris X-Nanterre, France, and is also affiliated to Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France. Bruno Gnassounou is from Department of Philosophy at the Université de Nantes, France.
