TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kistler,Max
AU  - Gnassounou,Bruno
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Dispositions and causal powers
AV  - BD374 .D57 2007eb
U1  - 111 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Disposition (Philosophy)
KW  - Causation
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-298) and index; Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright -- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hüttemann -- Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? / Markus Schrenk -- Dispositions, relational properties and the quantum world / Mauro Dorato -- Are specific heats dispositions? / Anouk Barberousse; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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