The Metaphysics of Powers

Their Grounding and their Manifestations
Herausgeber: Marmodoro, Anna

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across particular subject-specific ontological domains, investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power's relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780415876858
• ISBN-10: 0415876850
• Artikelnr.: 29929127

Autorenporträt

Anna Marmodoro is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Anna Marmodoro 1: On the Individuation of Powers
E.J. Lowe 2: Do Powers Need Powers to Make Them Powerful? From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle
Anna Marmodoro 3: Categories and the Ontology of Powers: A Vindication of the Identity Theory of Properties
Kristina Engelhard 4: Powerful Qualities
John Heil 5: Manifestations as Effects
Jennifer McKitrick 6: Puzzling Powers: The Problem of Fit
Neil Williams 7: Dispositions
Manifestations
and Causal Structure
Toby Handfield 8: Causal Powers and Categorical Properties
Brian Ellis 9: A Powerful Theory of Causation
Stephen Mumford and Rani Anjum 10: Causation and the Manifestation of Powers
Alexander Bird 11: Antidotes for Dispositional Essentialism
Markus Schrenk Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index