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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Handfield, Toby
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2009.
Series:Mind Association occasional series.
Subjects:
Disposition (Philosophy)
Causation.
Metaphysics.
Science > Philosophy.
First philosophy.
Disposition (Philosophie)
Métaphysique.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
First philosophy
Causation
Metaphysics
Science > Philosophy
Kausalitet.
Metafysik.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The metaphysics of dispositions and causes / Toby Handfield
  • Dispositions, causes, and reduction / Jennifer McKitrick
  • Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals
  • Antony eagle
  • Leaving things to take their chances : cause and disposition grounded in chance / Stephen Barker
  • Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers / Nancy Cartwright
  • How is scientific analysis possible? / Richard Corry
  • Agent-causal power / Timothy O'Connor
  • Structural properties revisited / Alexander Bird
  • Causal nominalism / Ann Whittle
  • Why do the laws explain why? / Marc Lange.

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