Research Catalog

Title

Causal powers / edited by Jonathan D. Jacobs.

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Jacobs, Jonathan D.

Description

vi, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Causal powers are ubiquitous. Electrons are negatively charged; they have the power to repel other electrons. Water is a solvent; it has the power to dissolve salt. We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, abilities, and so on-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. But what is it about the world that makes such descriptions apt? This collection brings together new and important work by both emerging scholars and those who helped shape the field on the nature of causal powers, and the connections between causal powers and other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Contributors discuss how one who takes causal powers to be in some sense irreducible should think about laws of nature, scientific practice, causation, modality, space and time, persistence, and the metaphysics of mind.

Subjects

• Verursachung
• Metaphysik
• Ursache
• Bewusstsein
• Causation
• Philosophie
• Kausalität
• Metaphysics
• Teleology
• Naturwissenschaften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-7082

ISBN

• 0198796579
• 9780198796572

OCLC

965759618

Title

Causal powers / edited by Jonathan D. Jacobs.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jacobs, Jonathan D., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7082