Reconsidering Causal Powers

Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
Herausgeber: Hill, Benjamin; Psillos, Stathis; Lagerlund, Henrik

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Produktbeschreibung

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science to fill explanatory gaps seen to be left by reductivist and eliminativist accounts of previous generations. This volume revisits the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles across history to foster deeper discussions about their metaphysical natures

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780198869528
• ISBN-10: 0198869525
• Artikelnr.: 59961650

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Hill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. His main areas of research are 16th and 17th metaphysics and epistemology, especially regarding the philosophy of mind and language. He is the editor-in-chief of Locke Studies and most recently the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (2017). Henrik Lagerlund is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Stockholm University. He works primarily on medieval and renaissance philosophy, and has written several articles and books. He is the author of Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and editor of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, second edition (2020). Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens. He is an editor of Metascience and a founding member and former President of The European Philosophy of Science Association.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Stathis Psillos: The Inherence and Directedness of Powers
* 2: Calvin G. Normore: Powers, Possibilities and Time: Notes for a
Program
* 3: Henrik Lagerlund: Aristotelian Powers, Mechanism, and Final Causes
in the Late Middle Ages
* 4: Deborah Brown: Agency, Force, and Inertia in Descartes and Hobbes
* 5: Benjamin Hill: The Ontological Status of Causal Powers:
Substances, Modes, and Humeanism
* 6: Walter Ott: The Case Against Powers
* 7: Andreas Hüttemann: The Return of Causal Powers?
* 8: Lisa Downing: Qualities, Powers, and Bare Powers in Locke
* 9: Peter Millican: Hume on Causation and Causal Powers
* 10: Jennifer McKitrick: Resurgent Powers and the Failure of
Conceptual Analysis
* 11: Brian Ellis: Causal Powers and Structures
* 12: Howard Sankey: Induction and Natural Kinds Revisited