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Reconsidering causal powers : historical and conceptual perspectives /

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"Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. They were once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes but were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this collection of essays, disting...

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Other Authors: Hill, Benjamin (Editor), Lagerlund, Henrik (Editor), Psillos, Stathis, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Causation.
History & Surveys.
PHILOSOPHY.
Metaphysics.
SCIENCE.
Causation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The inherence and directedness of powers / Stathis Psillos
  • Powers, possibilities, and time: notes for a programme / Calvin G. Normore
  • Aristotelian powers, mechanism, and final causes in the late Middle Ages / Henrik Lagerlund
  • Agency, force, and inertia in Descartes and Hobbes / Deborah Brown
  • The ontological status of causal powers: substances, modes, and Humeanism / Benjamin Hill
  • The case against powers / Walter Ott
  • The return of causal powers? / Andreas Hüttemann
  • Qualities, powers, and bare powers in Locke / Lisa Downing
  • Hume on causation and causal powers / Peter Millican
  • Resurgent powers and the failure of conceptual analysis / Jennifer McKitrick
  • Causal powers and structures / Brian Ellis
  • Induction and natural kinds revisited / Howard Sankey.