Dispositions and causes / edited by Toby Handfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handfield, Toby, editor.

Mind Association, issuing body.

Series:

Mind Association occasional series.

Oxford scholarship online.

Mind Association occasional series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disposition (Philosophy).

Causation.

Metaphysics.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (663 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title contains ten essays by scholars working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining the relation between dispositional and causal concepts.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causes; 2. Dispositions, Causes, and Reduction; 3. Causal Structuralism, Dispositional Actualism, and Counterfactual Conditionals; 4. Leaving Things to Take their Chances: Cause and Disposition Grounded in Chance; 5. Causal Laws, Policy Predictions, and the Need for Genuine Powers; 6. How is Scientific Analysis Possible?; 7. Agent-Causal Power; 8. Structural Properties Revisited; 9. Causal Nominalism; 10. Why do the Laws Explain Why?; References; Index; Footnotes

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Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04589-5

0-19-160969-2

1-281-97577-X

9786611975777

0-19-156541-5

OCLC:

476241186