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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan D. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. His work is primarily in metaphysics (focused on causal powers and their connection with causation, laws of nature, modality, and free will) and philosophy of religion. He has published articles in Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and The Monist, among other places. Klappentext We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Zusammenfassung We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Jonathan D. Jacobs: Introduction Part 1. Science and Laws of Nature 2: Nancy Cartwright: Causal Powers: Why Humeans Can't Even Be Instrumentalists 3: Anjan Chakravartty: Saving the Scientific Phenomena: What Powers Can and Cannot Do 4: Heather Demarest: Powerful Properties, Powerless Laws Part 2. Causation and Modality 5: Anna Marmodoro: Aristotelian Powers at Work: Reciprocity without Symmetry in Causation 6: Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum: Mutual Manifestation and Martin's Two Triangles 7: John Heil: Real Modalities 8: Timothy Pawl: Nine Problems (and Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility Part 3. Space, Time, and Persistence 9: Alexander Bird: Manifesting Time and Space: Background-Free Physical Theories 10: Neil E. Williams: Powerful Perdurance: Linking Parts with Powers Part 4. Mind 11: Lauren Ashwell: Conflicts of Desire: Dispositions and the Metaphysics of Mind 12: Max Kistler: Colors and Appearances as Powers and Manifestations 13: Robert C. Koons and Alexander Pruss: Must Functionalists Be Aristotelians 14: David Robb: Power for the Mental as Such ...
