Powers and capacities in philosophy : the new Aristotelianism /

Other Authors: Groff, Ruth,, Greco, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ruth Groff
  • 1. The power of power / Stephen Mumford
  • 2. Limitations of power / Alexander Bird
  • 3. Emergence, causal powers, and Aristotelianism in metaphysics / Eleonore Stump
  • 4. The ineliminability of dispositions in Hume's rejection of causal powers / Lynn S. Joy
  • 5. Aristotelian powers : Without them, what would modern science do? / Nancy Cartwright and John Pemberton
  • 6. Dispositions for scientific realism / Anjan Chakravartty
  • 7. Powerful particulars revisited / Rom Harré
  • 8. Powers, structures, and minds / William Jaworski
  • 9. The will as a rational free power / E. J. Lowe
  • 10. The power of agency / Brian Ellis
  • 11. Whose power? Which agency?
  • 12. Disposition and ethics / Rani Lill Anjum ... [et al.]
  • 13. The power, and limitations, of virtue epistemology / Jesper Kallestrup and Duncan Pritchard
  • 14. Powers and reasons / Linda Zagzebski
  • 15. Emergence and social causation / Tony Lawson
  • 16. Gender essentialism : Aristotle or Locke?
  • / Charlotte Witt
  • 17. Rules, goods, and powers / Kelvin Knight.