Dispositions and Causes

Herausgeber: Handfield, Toby

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780199558933
• ISBN-10: 0199558930
• Artikelnr.: 26523584

Autorenporträt

Toby Handfield is Lecturer in Philosophy and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University. He works both in metaphysics and in moral theory.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Toby Handfield: The metaphysics of dispositions and causes
* 2: Jennifer McKitrick: Dispositions, causes, and reduction
* 3: Antony Eagle: Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and
counterfactual conditionals
* 4: Stephen Barker: Leaving things to take their chances: Cause and
disposition grounded in chance
* 5: Nancy Cartwright: Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need
for genuine powers
* 6: Richard Corry: How is scientific analysis possible?
* 7: Timothy O'Connor: Agent-causal power
* 8: Alexander Bird: Structural properties revisited
* 9: Ann Whittle: Causal nominalism
* 10: Marc Lange: Why do the laws explain why?
* References