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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 ; New York :
Clarendon Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Mind Association occasional series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-337) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191565415 9780191565410 9780199558933 0199558930 |