A Powerful Particulars View of Causation.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Series
• Author: Ingthorsson, R. D.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• 1.1 The Aims of This Book
• 1.2 The Outline of the Book
• 1.3 Causation, Metaphysics, and Our Understanding of the Natural World
• 1.4 Causation Is Only One of Many Forms of Natural Determination
• 1.5 Standard Approaches to Causation
• 1.6 Powers-Based Approaches
• 1.7 The Challenge from Modern Science
• 1.8 The Empiricist Bias
• 1.9 About the Method of My Project
• Chapter 2: Powers-Based vs. neo-Humean Approaches
• 2.1 Explaining vs. Characterising Causation
• 2.2 Powers-Based and Neo-Humean Accounts Compatible on the Level of Characterisation
• 2.3 Hume's Discussion of Causation
• 2.4 The Tools of the Dominant Strategies
• 2.5 Does It Really Matter?
• Chapter 3: Causal Realism
• 3.1 Powers-Based Accounts
• 3.2 Salmon: Causal Production as Interaction Between Causal Processes
• 3.3 The Transmission Account of Causation
• 3.4 Ned Hall on the Generative Conception of Causation
• 3.5 Stuart Glennan: The Mechanistic Account of Causal Production
• 3.6 Causation as a Continuous Process of Production
• 3.7 The Standard View
• 3.8 Action or Influence in the Standard View
• 3.9 Two Types of Empiricism
• 3.10 A Return to the Empiricist Reduction of Causes
• Chapter 4: Causal Production
• 4.1 The Standard View: A Reminder
• 4.2 A Fundamental Flaw in the Standard View
• 4.3 Colloquial Language vs. Science: 'Action', 'Reaction', and 'Interaction'
• 4.4 Reciprocity of Interactions
• 4.5 Bunge's Rejection of Interaction as the Basis of Causation
• 4.6 Interaction Involves Production
• 4.7 Unidirectionality Due to Agency Bias
• 4.8 Interactions Are Causally Fundamental
• 4.9 Necessary Connections
• 4.10 Production Requires Endurance and an A View of Time.
• 4.11 Simultaneous Causation
• 4.12 Causation a Form of One-Sided Existential Dependence
• 4.13 The Asymmetry of Causation
• 4.14 Conclusion
• Chapter 5: Causal Necessity
• 5.1 Causal Necessity as Logical Necessity
• 5.2 The Problem of Action at a Temporal Distance
• 5.3 The Problem of Interference and Prevention
• 5.4 The Standard View Response
• 5.5 Interference and Prevention in Powers-Based Causation
• 5.6 Causal Necessity Without Ceteris Paribus Clause
• 5.7 Conclusion
• Chapter 6: Constitution and Persistence
• 6.1 The Incompatibility of Causation, Constitution, and Persistence
• 6.2 Characterisations
• 6.3 A Causal Account of Constitution and Persistence
• 6.4 Problems?
• 6.5 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 7: Substance and Process
• 7.1 Substance Ontology
• 7.2 The Paradigm of Substance Ontology
• 7.3 Aristotelian Substance Ontology
• 7.4 Process Ontology
• 7.5 The Problem of Process Ontology
• 7.6 A World of Processes/Substances
• Chapter 8: Powers
• 8.1 Preliminary Remarks About My Treatment of Powers
• 8.2 Different Views of Powers
• 8.3 Are Qualities Observable?
• 8.4 A Priori Reason for Qualities Being Fundamental
• 8.5 Hume's Separation of Quality and Causal Role
• 8.6 The Powerful Qualities View Implicit in the Scientific Image
• 8.7 Locke's Powerful Qualities View
• 8.8 Properties and Conditionals
• 8.9 The Determinate Nature of Unmanifesting Powers
• 8.10 Active and Passive Powers
• 8.11 The Problem of Fit
• 8.12 What Is Doing the Work: Powers or Particulars?
• 8.13 Concluding Remark
• Chapter 9: A Critique of Counterfactual Theories of Causation
• 9.1 The Appeal of CTCs
• 9.2 Counterfactuals Explain Causation vs. Causation Explains Counterfactuals?
• 9.3 The Ordinary Concepts of Cause and Counterfactual Dependence
• 9.4 Possible Worlds: Truth-Conditions or Truthmakers?.
• 9.5 Possible Worlds as Truthmakers: Concrete or Abstract?
• 9.6 Neo-Humean Metaphysics and CTCs
• 9.7 Comparative Similarity and Supervenience
• 9.8 Conclusion
• Chapter 10: The Contrast to Alternative Views
• 10.1 The Neo-Humean Contrast
• 10.2 The Causal Objectivist Contrast
• 10.3 The Contrast to the Standard View
• 10.4 Contrast to Powers-Based Accounts I: Relational Realism
• 10.5 Contrast to Powers-Based Accounts II: Process Realism
• 10.6 Contrast to Powers-Based Accounts III: Structural Accounts
• 10.7 Contrast to 20th-Century Friends of Powers
• 10.8 Concluding Remark
• Bibliography
• Index.