Dispositions and causal powers
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10211446 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler
- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers
- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / Franπcois Schmitz
- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford
- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin
- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler
- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon
- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou
- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen
- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science
- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harrβe
- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright
- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hθuttemann
- Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? / Markus Schrenk
- Dispositions, relational properties and the quantum world / Mauro Dorato
- Are specific heats dispositions? / Anouk Barberousse.