Causal powers / edited by Jonathan D. Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobs, Jonathan D., editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Adam & Tracy Bernstein Collection Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introduction / Jonathan D. Jacobs Jacobs, Jonathan D. 1

Part I Science and Laws of Nature

2 Causal Powers: Why Humeans Can't Even Be Instrumentalists / Nancy Cartwright Cartwright, Nancy 9

3 Saving the Scientific Phenomena: What Powers Can and Cannot Do / Anjan Chakravartty Chakravartty, Anjan 24

4 Powerful Properties, Powerless Laws / Heather Demurest Demurest, Heather 38

Part II Causation and Modality

5 Aristotelian Powers at Work: Reciprocity without Symmetry in Causation / Anna Marmodoro Marmodoro, Anna 57

6 Mutual Manifestation and Martin's Two Triangles / Rani Lill Anjum Anjum, Rani Lill, Stephen Mumford Mumford, Stephen 77

7 Real Modalities / John Heil Heil, John 90

8 Nine Problems (and Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility / Timothy Pawl Pawl, Timothy 105

Part III Space, Time, and Persistence

9 Manifesting Time and Space: Background-Free Physical Theories / Alexander Bird Bird, Alexander 127

10 Powerful Perdurance: Linking Parts with Powers / Neil E. Williams Williams, Neil E. 139

Part IV Mind

11 Conflicts of Desire: Dispositions and the Metaphysics of Mind / Lauren Ashwell Ashwell, Lauren 167

12 Colors and Appearances as Powers and Manifestations / Max Kistler Kistler, Max 177

13 Must Functionalists Be Aristotelians? / Robert C. Koons Koons, Robert C., Alexander Pruss Pruss, Alexander 194

14 Power for the Mental as Such / David Robb Robb, David 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam & Tracy Bernstein Collection Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780192516596

0192516590

Publisher Number:

40027185279

Access Restriction:

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