Dispositions and Causal Powers

Dispositions and Causal Powers

Gnassounou, Bruno; Kistler, Max

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2007

315

Dura

Inglês

9780754654254

15 a 20 dias

740

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Introduction; 1: The Metaphysics of Dispositions and Causal Powers; 1: Dispositions and Counterfactuals. From Carnap to Goodman's Children and Grandchildren; 2: Filled In Space; 3: Dispositions and Essences; 4: The Causal Efficacy of Macroscopic Dispositional Properties; 5: Opium's Virtus Dormitiva; 6: Conditional Possibility; 7: On Ascribing Dispositions; 2: Dispositions and Causal Powers in Science; 8: An Extended Semantic Field of Dispositions and the Grounding Role of Causal Powers; 9: What Makes a Capacity a Disposition?; 10: Causation, Laws and Dispositions; 11: Can Capacities Rescue us from Ceteris Paribus Laws?; 12: Dispositions, Relational Properties and the Quantum World; 13: Are Specific Heats Dispositions?
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