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Properties, powers, and structures : issues in the metaphysics of realism / edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in metaphysics ; v. 5.
- Routledge studies in metaphysics ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Realism--Congresses.
- Realism.
- Science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While the phrase ""metaphysics of science"" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science-and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are: The modal metaphysics of properties: What is the essential nature of natural properties? Are all properties essentially categorical? Are they all essentially dispositions, or are some categorical and others dispositi
- Contents:
- Properties, Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism; Copyright; Contents; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Part ISYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTIES; 1. THE CATEGORICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CAUSAL POWERS; 2. DEFENDING CATEGORICALISM; 3. MONISTIC DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM; Part IILEVELS OF INQUIRY; 4. LEVELS OF REALITY AND SCALES OF APPLICATION; Part IIIREALISM IN MATHEMATICS; 5. ANTI-NOMINALISTIC SCIENTIFIC REALISM: A DEFENCE; 6. INDISPENSABILITY WITHOUT PLATONISM; Part IVDISPOSITIONS AND CAUSAL POWERS; 7. CAUSAL DISPOSITIONALISM
- 8. POWERFUL PROPERTIES AND THE CAUSAL BASIS OF DISPOSITIONS9. FOUR THEORIES OF PURE DISPOSITIONS; Part VPAN-DISPOSITIONALISM; 10. THE METAPHYSICS OF PAN-DISPOSITIONALISM; 11. THE CATEGORICAL-DISPOSITIONAL DISTINCTION; 12. DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM AND THE LAWS OF NATURE; Part VINATURAL KINDS; 13. THE METAPHYSICS OF DETERMINABLE KINDS; 14. SCIENTIFIC KINDS WITHOUT ESSENCES; REFERENCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Proceedings of a conference held in July 2009 at the University of Melbourne.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613458414
- 9781136345715
- 113634571X
- 9781283458412
- 1283458411
- 9781136345722
- 1136345728
- 9780203124482
- 0203124480
- OCLC:
- 798532947
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