Cargando…
Dispositions and causal powers /
This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examines 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 dispositi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2007.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler
- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers
- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz
- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford
- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin
- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler
- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon
- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou
- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen
- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science
- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré
- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright
- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hüttemann
- Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? / Markus Schrenk
- Dispositions, relational properties and the quantum world / Mauro Dorato
- Are specific heats dispositions? / Anouk Barberousse.