Neil E. Williams develops a systematic metaphysics centred on the idea of powers, as a rival to neo-Humeanism, the dominant systematic metaphysics in philosophy today. Williams takes powers to be inherently causal properties and uses them as the foundation of his explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality.
Neil E. Williams develops a systematic metaphysics centred on the idea of powers, as a rival to neo-Humeanism, the dominant systematic metaphysics in philosophy today. Williams takes powers to be inherently causal properties and uses them as the foundation of his explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality.
Neil E. Williams is Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Buffalo, where he has been working since 2005. Prior to this he obtained a PhD from Columbia University, an MA from Simon Fraser University, and a BA from the University of Calgary.
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1: Revolutionary Metaphysics 2: The Neo-Humean Status Quo 3: Introducing Powers 4: Understanding Powers 5: The Powers Ontology: Monism and Dualism 6: Powers-Based Causation 7: Causal Oddities 8: Persistence Explained 9: A Dormitive Virtue? 10: Loose Ends