03171nam 22006254a 450 991095743120332120251116204105.01-315-57761-51-317-14950-51-317-14949-11-281-10440-X97866111044050-7546-8450-4(CKB)1000000000415088(EBL)438401(OCoLC)290512243(SSID)ssj0000140010(PQKBManifestationID)11144889(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140010(PQKBWorkID)10029746(PQKB)10242756(Au-PeEL)EBL438401(CaPaEBR)ebr10211446(CaONFJC)MIL924658(MiAaPQ)EBC438401(EXLCZ)99100000000041508820060531d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDispositions and causal powers /edited by Max Kistler, Bruno Gnassounou1st ed.Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgatec20071 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-5425-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-298) and index.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 / Francois 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 Harre -- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright -- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Huttemann -- 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.This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examines the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.Disposition (Philosophy)CausationDisposition (Philosophy)Causation.111Kistler Max732673Gnassounou Bruno1169634MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957431203321Dispositions and causal powers4497924UNINA