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  title info:
    title: Getting causes from powers
  name:
    name part: Mumford, Stephen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Anjum, Rani Lill.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do we understand what in the world drives causation? Getting Causes from Powers develops a new and original theory of causation based on an ontology of real powers or dispositions. Others have already suggested that this ought to be possible, but no one has yet performed the detailed work. Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum argue here that the completed theory will not look exactly as anyone has yet anticipated, and that a thoroughly dispositional theory of causation has some surprising features, for instance with respect to modality. The book is not restricted to the metaphysics of causation, but treats a variety of topics such as explanation, perception, modelling, the logic of causal claims, transitivity, and nonlinearity, and the empirical credentials of the theory are tested with reference to biology."--Publisher's website.
  table of contents: Preface -- Passing powers around -- Modelling causes as vectors -- Against necessity -- Reductionism, holism, and emergence -- Simultaneity -- Explanation, absences, and counterfactuals -- The logic of causation -- Primitive modality -- Perceiving causes -- A biologically disposed theory of causation -- Conclusion.
  note: Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Causation
  subject:
    topic: Causation
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy & Religion
  subject:
    topic: Speculative Philosophy
  classification: BD591 .M864 2011
  classification: 122
  classification: CC 4400
  classification: 5,1
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      title: Getting causes from powers
    name:
      name part: Mumford, Stephen.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
    identifier: (OCoLC)709682941
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    record creation date: 120207
    record change date: 20260318185725.5
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      language term: eng