Dispositions and Causes
ISBN13: 9780199558933ISBN10: 0199558930
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304 pages
Mar 2009,
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Table of Contents
1.
The metaphysics of dispositions and causes
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2.
Dispositions, causes, and reduction
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3.
Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals
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4.
Leaving things to take their chances: Cause and disposition grounded in chance
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5.
Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers
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6.
How is scientific analysis possible?
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7.
Agent-causal power
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8.
Structural properties revisited
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9.
Causal nominalism
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10.
Why do the laws explain why?
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