Dispositions and causal powers / edited by Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 303 p. :; ill. |
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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 / Francois 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 Harre
- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright
- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Huttemann
- 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.