The metaphysics of powers : their grounding and their manifestations / / edited by Anna Marmodoro

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 111
• Soggetto topico: Power (Philosophy); Ontology
• Altri autori: MarmodoroAnna <1975->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1 On the Individuation of Powers; 2 Do Powers Need Powers to Make Them Powerful?: From Pandispositionalism to Aristotle; 3 Categories and the Ontology of Powers: A Vindication of the Identity Theory of Properties; 4 Powerful Qualities; 5 Manifestations as Effects; 6 Puzzling Powers: The Problem of Fit; 7 Dispositions, Manifestations, and Causal Structure; 8 Causal Powers and Categorical Properties; 9 A Powerful Theory of Causation; 10 Causation and the Manifestation of Powers; 11 Antidotes for Dispositional Essentialism ; ContributorsBibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge. The metaphysics of powers is a fast developing research field with fundamental questions at the forefront of current research, such as Can there be a world of only powers??What is the manifestation of a power??Are powers and their manifestations related by necessity? What are the prospects for dispositional accounts of causation? The papers focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across any particular subject-specific
• Titolo autorizzato: The metaphysics of powers
• ISBN: 1-136-96834-2; 1-136-96835-0; 1-282-62949-2; 9786612629495; 0-203-85128-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791121203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in metaphysics ; ; 2.