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BD374 .D58 2009eb
BD374
.
D58
2009eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
0191565415
0199558930
9780191565410
9780199558933
0199558930
b700127
Dispositions and causes /
[Book]
edited by Toby Handfield.
New York :
Clarendon Press,
2009.
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages).
Mind Association occasional series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-337) and index.
The metaphysics of dispositions and causes / Toby Handfield -- Dispositions, causes, and reduction / Jennifer McKitrick -- Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals -- Antony eagle -- Leaving things to take their chances : cause and disposition grounded in chance / Stephen Barker -- Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers / Nancy Cartwright -- How is scientific analysis possible? / Richard Corry -- Agent-causal power / Timothy O'Connor -- Structural properties revisited / Alexander Bird -- Causal nominalism / Ann Whittle -- Why do the laws explain why? / Marc Lange.
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Dispositions and Causes contains ten new essays by scholars working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining the relation between causal relations and dispositional properties. The introductory chapter contains a detailed overview of recent work in the area, providing a helpful entry to the literature for non-specialists. - ;In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study. Both of these phenomena appear to be intimately relate.
Dispositions and causes.
0199558930
Causation.
Disposition (Philosophy)
Metaphysics.
Science-- Philosophy.
Causation.
Disposition (Philosophy)
Kausalitet.
Metafysik.
Metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.
Science-- Philosophy.
PHI-- 004000
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BD374
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D58
2009eb
Handfield, Toby.
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