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Dispositions and causal powers / edited by Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou.
| Other author | Kistler, Max. |
| Other author | Gnassounou, Bruno. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, |
| Description | ix, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright -- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hüttemann -- Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? / Markus Schrenk -- Dispositions, relational properties and the quantum world / Mauro Dorato -- Are specific heats dispositions? / Anouk Barberousse. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-298) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006018032 |
| ISBN | 0754654257 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754654254 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |