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THE METAPHYSICS OF POWERS
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| By: |
Anna Marmodoro (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£160.00 |
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£144.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415876850 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415876858 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 April, 2010 |
| Series: |
Routledge Studies in Metaphysics v. 2 |
| Pages: |
204 |
| Description: |
Focuses on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across particular subject-specific ontological domains, investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power's relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. |
| Synopsis: |
This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge. The metaphysics of powers is a fast developing research field with fundamental questions at the forefront of current research, such as Can there be a world of only powers? What is the manifestation of a power? Are powers and their manifestations related by necessity? What are the prospects for dispositional accounts of causation? The papers focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across any particular subject-specific ontological domain -- whether philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology - investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power's relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. A number of authors also engage in discussion with Humean and neo-Humean treatments of causation, thereby making contributions to a larger metaphysical debate beyond powers.Additionally, the authors engage critically with the latest contributions to the debate on powers in the literature, thereby bringing together in a wholesome and analytical way the most recent and noteworthy theoretical developments in this research field. |
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17 black & white line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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