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Powers and Capacities in Philosophy - The New Aristotelianism (Hardcover, New)
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Powers and Capacities in Philosophy - The New Aristotelianism (Hardcover, New)
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Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an
emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded
in realism about causal powers. The volume brings together for the
first time original essays by leading philosophers working on
powers in relation to metaphysics, philosophy of natural and social
science, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics and
social and political philosophy. In each area, the concern is to
show how a commitment to real causal powers affects discussion at
the level in question. In metaphysics, for example, realism about
powers is now recognized as providing an alternative to orthodox
accounts of causation, modality, properties and laws. Dispositional
realist philosophers of science, meanwhile, argue that a powers
ontology allows for a proper account of the nature of scientific
explanation. In the philosophy of mind there is the suggestion that
agency is best understood in terms of the distinctive powers of
human beings. Those who take virtue theoretic approaches in
epistemology and ethics have long been interested in the powers
that allow for knowledge and/or moral excellence. In social and
political philosophy, finally, powers theorists are interested in
the powers of sociological phenomena such as collectivities,
institutions, roles and/or social relations, but also in the
conditions of possibility for the cultivation of the powers of
individuals. The book will be of interest to philosophers working
in any of these areas, as well as to historians of philosophy,
political theorists and critical realists.
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