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Dispositions and Causes.

Dispositions and Causes contains ten new essays by scholars working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining the relation between causal relations and dispositional properties. The introductory chapter contains a detailed overview of recent work in the area, providing a helpful en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Handfield, Toby
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.
Colección:Mind Association Occasional.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Dispositions and Causes contains ten new essays by scholars working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining the relation between causal relations and dispositional properties. The introductory chapter contains a detailed overview of recent work in the area, providing a helpful entry to the literature for non-specialists. - ;In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study. Both of these phenomena appear to be intimately relate.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (354 pages)
ISBN:9780191565410
0191565415