Title: Dispositions and causes /
Authors: Handfield, Toby
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Disposition (Philosophy); Causation.; Metaphysics; Science Philosophy
Contents: The metaphysics of dispositions and causes / Toby Handfield -- Dispositions, causes, and reduction / Jennifer McKitrick -- Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals / Antony Eagle -- Leaving things to take their chances : cause and disposition grounded in chance / Stephen Barker -- Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers / Nancy Cartwright -- How is scientific analysis possible? / Richard Corry -- Agent-causal power / Timothy O'Connor -- Structural properties revisited / Alexander Bird -- Causal nominalism / Ann Whittle -- Why do the laws explain why? / Marc Lange.