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Causal Powers

Jonathan D. Jacobs

Abstract

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.

Keywords: causal powers, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780198796572
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2017 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198796572.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Jonathan D. Jacobs, editor
Saint Louis University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

Part I Science and Laws of Nature

2 Causal Powers

Nancy Cartwright

3 Saving the Scientific Phenomena

Anjan Chakravartty

4 Powerful Properties, Powerless Laws

Heather Demarest

Part II Causation and Modality

5 Aristotelian Powers at Work

Anna Marmodoro

6 Mutual Manifestation and Martin’s Two Triangles

Rani Lill Anjum, and Stephen Mumford

7 Real Modalities

John Heil

8 Nine Problems (and Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility

Timothy Pawl

Part III Space, Time, and Persistence

9 Manifesting Time and Space: Background-Free Physical Theories

Alexander Bird

10 Powerful Perdurance

Neil E. Williams

Part IV Mind

11 Conflicts of Desire

Lauren Ashwell

12 Colors and Appearances as Powers and Manifestations

Max Kistler

13 Must Functionalists Be Aristotelians?

Robert C. Koons, and Alexander Pruss

14 Power for the Mental as Such

David Robb

End Matter

Bibliography

Index