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200 00$aProperties, powers and structures $eissues in the metaphysics of realism /$fedited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey
210  1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (281 p.)
225 1 $aRoutledge studies in metaphysics ;$v5
300   $aProceedings of a conference held in July 2009 at the University of Melbourne.
311   $a1-138-24528-3 
311   $a0-415-89535-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aProperties, Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism; Copyright; Contents; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Part ISYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTIES; 1. THE CATEGORICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CAUSAL POWERS; 2. DEFENDING CATEGORICALISM; 3. MONISTIC DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM; Part IILEVELS OF INQUIRY; 4. LEVELS OF REALITY AND SCALES OF APPLICATION; Part IIIREALISM IN MATHEMATICS; 5. ANTI-NOMINALISTIC SCIENTIFIC REALISM: A DEFENCE; 6. INDISPENSABILITY WITHOUT PLATONISM; Part IVDISPOSITIONS AND CAUSAL POWERS; 7. CAUSAL DISPOSITIONALISM
327   $a8. POWERFUL PROPERTIES AND THE CAUSAL BASIS OF DISPOSITIONS9. FOUR THEORIES OF PURE DISPOSITIONS; Part VPAN-DISPOSITIONALISM; 10. THE METAPHYSICS OF PAN-DISPOSITIONALISM; 11. THE CATEGORICAL-DISPOSITIONAL DISTINCTION; 12. DISPOSITIONAL ESSENTIALISM AND THE LAWS OF NATURE; Part VINATURAL KINDS; 13. THE METAPHYSICS OF DETERMINABLE KINDS; 14. SCIENTIFIC KINDS WITHOUT ESSENCES; REFERENCES; INDEX
330   $aWhile the phrase ""metaphysics of science"" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science-and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are: The modal metaphysics of properties: What is the essential nature of natural properties? Are all properties essentially categorical? Are they all essentially dispositions, or are some categorical and others dispositi
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