Bruno Gnassounou

Dispositions and Causal Powers

Herausgeber: Kistler, Max

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examines the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 315
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780754654254
• ISBN-10: 0754654257
• Artikelnr.: 47830522

Autorenporträt

Max Kistler is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University Paris X-Nanterre, France, and is also affiliated to Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France. Bruno Gnassounou is from Department of Philosophy at the Université de Nantes, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causal Powers
1: Dispositions and Counterfactuals. From Carnap to Goodman's Children and Grandchildren
2: Filled In Space
3: Dispositions and Essences
4: The Causal Efficacy of Macroscopic Dispositional Properties
5: Opium's Virtus Dormitiva
6: Conditional Possibility
7: On Ascribing Dispositions
2: Dispositions and Causal Powers in Science
8: An Extended Semantic Field of Dispositions and the Grounding Role of Causal Powers
9: What Makes a Capacity a Disposition?
10: Causation, Laws and Dispositions
11: Can Capacities Rescue us from Ceteris Paribus Laws?
12: Dispositions, Relational Properties and the Quantum World
13: Are Specific Heats Dispositions?