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The metaphysics of powers [electronic resource] : their grounding and their manifestations / edited by Anna Marmodoro.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge studies in metaphysics ; 2.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 196 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780203851289 (ebk : PDF)
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 111
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
On the individuation of powers / E.J. Lowe -- Do powers need powers to make them powerful? : from pandispositionalism to Aristotle / Anna Marmodoro -- Categories and the ontology of powers : a vindication of the identity theory of properties / Kristina Engelhard -- Powerful qualities / John Heil -- Manifestations as effects / Jennifer McKitrick -- Puzzling powers : the problem of fit / Neil Williams -- Dispositions, manifestations, and causal structure / Toby Handfield -- Causal powers and categorical properties / Brian Ellis -- A powerful theory of causation / Stephen Mumford and Rani Anjum -- Causation and the manifestation of powers / Alexander Bird -- Antidotes for dispositional essentialism / Markus Schrenk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the individuation of powers / E.J. Lowe -- Do powers need powers to make them powerful? : from pandispositionalism to Aristotle / Anna Marmodoro -- Categories and the ontology of powers : a vindication of the identity theory of properties / Kristina Engelhard -- Powerful qualities / John Heil -- Manifestations as effects / Jennifer McKitrick -- Puzzling powers : the problem of fit / Neil Williams -- Dispositions, manifestations, and causal structure / Toby Handfield -- Causal powers and categorical properties / Brian Ellis -- A powerful theory of causation / Stephen Mumford and Rani Anjum -- Causation and the manifestation of powers / Alexander Bird -- Antidotes for dispositional essentialism / Markus Schrenk.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.