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Getting Causes from Powers (Paperback)
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Getting Causes from Powers (Paperback)
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Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science
and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know
what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do we
understand what in the world drives causation? Getting Causes from
Powers develops a new and original theory of causation based on an
ontology of real powers or dispositions. Others have already
suggested that this ought to be possible, but no one has yet
performed the detailed work. Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum
argue here that the completed theory will not look exactly as
anyone has yet anticipated, and that a thoroughly dispositional
theory of causation has some surprising features, for instance with
respect to modality. The book is not restricted to the metaphysics
of causation, but treats a variety of topics such as explanation,
perception, modelling, the logic of causal claims, transitivity,
and nonlinearity, and the empirical credentials of the theory are
tested with reference to biology.
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