| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Mind Association occasional series
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Mind Association occasional series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-337) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Disposition (Philosophy)
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Disposition (Philosophy) |
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Causation.
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Causation. |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Handfield, Toby.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Handfield, Toby. Dispositions and causes. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199558933 0199558930 (DLC) 2008036161 (OCoLC)234430754 |
| ISBN |
0191565415 (electronic book) |
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9780191565410 (electronic book) |
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9780199558933 (electronic book) |
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0199558930 (electronic book) |
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0199558930 (Cloth) |
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