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A Powerful Particulars View of Causation (Hardcover)
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A Powerful Particulars View of Causation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
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This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and
powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an
original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible
with the theories and findings of natural science. Recently, there
has been a dramatic revival of realist approaches to properties and
causation, which focus on the relevance of Aristotelian metaphysics
and the notion of powers for a scientifically informed view of
causation. In this book, R.D. Ingthorsson argues that one central
feature of powers-based accounts of causation is arguably
incompatible with what is today recognised as fact in the sciences,
notably that all interactions are thoroughly reciprocal.
Ingthorsson's powerful particulars view of causation accommodates
for the reciprocity of interactions. It also draws out the
consequences of that view for issue of causal necessity and offers
a way to understand the constitution and persistence of compound
objects as causal phenomena. Furthermore, Ingthorsson argues that
compound entities, so understood, are just as much processes as
they are substances. A Powerful Particulars View of Causation will
be of great interest to scholars and advanced students working in
metaphysics, philosophy of science, and neo-Aristotelian
philosophy, while also being accessible for a general audience. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003094241, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
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