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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