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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2009.
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| Colección: | Mind Association Occasional.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Contributors; 1. The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causes; 2. Dispositions, Causes, and Reduction; 3. Causal Structuralism, Dispositional Actualism, and Counterfactual Conditionals; 4. Leaving Things to Take their Chances: Cause and Disposition Grounded in Chance; 5. Causal Laws, Policy Predictions, and the Need for Genuine Powers; 6. How is Scientific Analysis Possible?; 7. Agent-Causal Power; 8. Structural Properties Revisited; 9. Causal Nominalism; 10. Why do the Laws Explain Why?; References; Index.