The Metaphysics of Powers (eBook, ePUB)

Their Grounding and their Manifestations
Redaktion: Marmodoro, Anna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge. They focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across any particular subject-specific ontological domain -- whether philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology - 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

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 227
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136968341
• Artikelnr.: 42977983

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