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Dispositions and Causes (Hardcover)
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Dispositions and Causes (Hardcover)
Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
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In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a
topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently,
dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study.
Both of these phenomena appear to be intimately related to
counterfactual conditionals and other modal phenomena such as
objective chance, but little work has been done to directly relate
them. Dispositions and Causes contains ten essays by scholars
working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining
the relation between dispositional and causal concepts.
Particular issues discussed include the possibility of reducing
dispositions to causes, and vice versa; the possibility of a
nominalist theory of causal powers; the attempt to reduce all
metaphysical necessity to dispositional properties; the
relationship between dispositions, causes, and laws of nature; the
role of causal capacities in explaining the success of scientific
inquiry; the grounding of dispositions and causes in objective
chances; and the type of causal power required for free agency.
The introductory chapter contains a detailed overview of recent
work in the area, providing a helpful entry to the literature for
non-specialists.
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