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The Metaphysics of Powers : Their Grounding and their Manifestations.
Focuses on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across particular subject-specific ontological domains, 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Studies in Metaphysics, v. 2.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1 On the Individuation of Powers; 2 Do Powers Need Powers to Make Them Powerful?: From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle; 3 Categories and the Ontology of Powers: A Vindication of the Identity Theory of Properties; 4 Powerful Qualities; 5 Manifestations as Effects; 6 Puzzling Powers: The Problem of Fit; 7 Dispositions, Manifestations, and Causal Structure; 8 Causal Powers and Categorical Properties; 9 A Powerful Theory of Causation; 10 Causation and the Manifestation of Powers; 11 Antidotes for Dispositional Essentialism.
- ContributorsBibliography; Index.