Dispositions and causes
By: [edited  by] Toby Handfield.
Contributors: Handfield, Toby.
Series: Mind association occasional series
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780199558933
Subjects: Disposition (Philosophy); Causation; Metaphysics; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The metaphysics of dispositions and causes / Toby Handfield; title: Dispositions, causes, and reduction / Jennifer McKitrick; title: Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals; title: Antony eagle; title: Leaving things to take their chances : cause and disposition grounded in chance / Stephen Barker; title: Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers / Nancy Cartwright; title: How is scientific analysis possible? / Richard Corry; title: Agent-causal power / Timothy O'Connor; title: Structural properties revisited / Alexander Bird; title: Causal nominalism / Ann Whittle; title: Why do the laws explain why? / Marc Lange.