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Properties, powers, and structures : issues in the metaphysics of realism
- Title
- Properties, powers, and structures : issues in the metaphysics of realism / edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
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- Description
- ix, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- While 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 dispositional?
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in metaphysics ; 5
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in metaphysics ; v. 5.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Proceedings of a conference held in July 2009 at the University of Melbourne.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The categorical dimensions of the causal powers / Brian Ellis -- Defending categoricalism / D.M. Armstrong -- Monistic dispositional essentialism / Alexander Bird -- Levels of reality and scales of application / Patrick McGivern -- Anti-nominalistic scientific realism: a defence / Stathis Psillos -- Indispensability without platonism / Anne Newstead and James Franklin -- Causal dispositionalism / Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum -- Powerful properties and the causal basis of dispositions / Max Kistler -- Four theories of pure dispositions / William A. Bauer -- The metaphysics of pan-dispositionalism / Matthew Tugby -- The categorical-dispositional distinction / Sharon R. Ford -- Dispositional essentialism and the laws of the nature / Barbara Vetter -- The metaphysics of determinable kinds / Emma Tobin -- Scientific kinds without essences / Corinne L. Bloch.
- ISBN
- 9780415895354
- 0415895359
- 9780203124482
- 0203124480
- LCCN
- 2011041091
- 99950955536
- OCLC
- ocn698324492
- 698324492
- SCSB-14264471
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library