Basic Causal Relations
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Blue Spheres
Categorical Properties
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causal
causal necessity
Causal Powers
Causal Processes
Complex Causal Relation
Constant Conjunction
Counterfactual Dependence
dispositional
dispositional essentialism
Dispositional Predicates
Dispositional Properties
dispositional realism
Dualist Intuition
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essentialists
Feynman Diagrams
Humean causation
Humean Supervenience
Intrinsic Qualitative Nature
kinds
metaphysical
metaphysical grounding of powers
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natural
Natural Kinds
necessity
Neutral Monism
Non-dispositional Properties
Non-power Property
ontology of properties
philosophy of science
Physical Causal Process
Power Holism
properties
Pure Powers
Space Time Diagram
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Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415834421
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers — properties such as fragility and electric charge. The metaphysics of powers is a fast developing research field with fundamental questions at the forefront of current research, such as Can there be a world of only powers??What is the manifestation of a power??Are powers and their manifestations related by necessity? What are the prospects for dispositional accounts of causation? The papers focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across any particular subject-specific ontological domain -- whether philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology – investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power’s relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation.?A number of authors also engage in discussion with Humean and neo-Humean treatments of causation, thereby making contributions to a larger metaphysical debate beyond powers.?Additionally, the authors engage critically with the latest contributions to the debate on powers in the literature, thereby bringing together in a wholesome and analytical way the most recent and noteworthy theoretical developments in this research field.?
Anna Marmodoro is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College.
